Cultures

To understand a people, study them where they live. Construct simplified model houses to consider the climates, resources, materials and traditions that define culture. Focus on a region. Focus on a historic area. Focus on a common pursuit like baking bread. Create façades of local architecture.

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We construct castles and temples, pyramids and pagodas from far off lands and far off centuries. We construct villas from ancient Rome and Egypt, stilt houses from the Rain Forest, elegant painted houses from the African savannah, adobe farm houses from the American southwest, sod houses from the prairie. Building connects the hands and minds of your students to the hands and minds of the world. Building connects your students.

No great architecture is built without the cooperation that builds community.