LAS FIESTAS

OUR CITIES big presentation

ARQUIKIDS & THE KIDS FROM SWAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN SPAIN WANT TO WISH A FANTASTIC DAY FOR ALL THE KIDS FROM HENRY SCHOOL THE 10TH OF DECEMBER 2008 FOR THE BIG PRESENTATION OF "OUR CITIES" WORKSHOP

AND A SPECIAL REGARD TO KRISTIN MULLANEY FOR ALL HER SUPPORT IN THIS FANTASTIC WORKSOP

Our cities workshop

Workshop "Our cities"
Ocotber 2008

CONGRATULATION FOR A FANTASTIC WORK!!!!!

THE PURPOSE IS NOT TO TEST HOW MUCH THEY HAVE LEARNT AS TO NURTURE INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY

C.W HENRY SCHOOL , PHILADEPHIA

ARQUIKIDS wants to comment:

You have a great time with your Class: The Structures, as we can see in the pictures you have sent us.


going through the arch!

being cantilevers - like Frank Lloyd Wright's house

CONGRATULATIONS KIDS

from C.W HENRY SCHOOL , PHILADEPHIA!!!

KIDS FROM C.W.HENRY SCHOOL

ARQUIKIDS wants to say HELLO!!! to the second grade course from the C.W.Henry School, Philadelphia.

WORKTEAM:

Benjamin, Madoline,Lucas, Jay, Miranda, Hara, Andrew, Malachi, Jared, Emma, Willem, Dominique.

WORKSHOP AIA PHILADELPHIA & ARQUIKIDS

ARQUIKIDS is collaboration with AIA Philadelphia Foundation, are organizing an exchange workshop call EXPLORING OUR CITIES, Marbella and Philadelphia

Swan International Primary School, Marbella, Spain
C.W. Henry School, Philadelphia, USA

The aim of this project is not to get the children playing at being architects; rather, it is to offer children access to the different delights and possibilities that architecture and the city may offer them.

Goals:
· Introduce and compare local versus foreign architecture
· Learn about another country, culture, history, geography and customs
· See how we are alike as well as different
· Inspire additional education related to everyday life
· Learn to observe and understand the built environment
· Explore and understand the urban design process

WORK TEAM
Kristin Mullaney, ArchitectChair, Advisory Committee, Architecture in Education Program,Philadelphia

Rachel Dozier ,Philadelphia University
Merri Rubin, teacher, C.W. Henry School
Isabella DeBeary, parent volunteer, C.W. Henry School
Lisa Rose-Bryant, graphic designer, Philadelphia

Solange Espoille, Architect, Founder of Arquikids, Spain

Vanina Favale, parent volunteer, Spain

ARQUINEWS

Good News Coming!!

We would like to inform you that Arquikids is travelling to Helsinky, Finland in June.
We are visiting ARKKI , School Of Architecture for children and youth www.arkki.net . This school was found in 1993 by three architects: Tuuli Tiitola-Meskanen,Miina Vuorinen and
Pihla Meskanen.

Annualy Arkki arrange various courses in arhitecture for 800 students from 3 to 19 years old with 25 architects working as facilitators.

The Director Pihla Meskanen invites us to attend the summer course during one week.
In summer they give a special one week long courses for children (monday to friday, from 9 to 4 in the afternoon)
The topics are; architecture and modelling, product design, arts and crafts, hut building (happening outside, involving building in 1:1 scale)

It´s a great opportunity for Arquikids to observe and learn from a school like this.
We will comment all !!

Welcome to Arquikids

Aims of Architecture Education


Architecture education aims to develop a child´s ability to perceive , consider,
understand,conceptualize and evaluate his or her enviroment.

Architecture education supports the development of individual cultural identity, with helps us belong to our country and to humankinds.

We focus on experiencing the world with all the senses, to stimulate the senses and to evoke the imagination and creativity.

Design provides opportunities for learning of different kinds.It creates knowledge and understanding of how we shape and manage our enviroment and how we choose to live.

Design is about what we do not know.It is about imagining the future and making it happen.
In design education, we are enabling young people to explore how the enviroment impacts upon them and how they in turn might impact upon it.

Learning by Design

Learning by design means creating a framework of experiencies and activities for the young people to learn. Teaching here is not an instruction. It is not merely providing information or explanation. It is supporting the learning activities by creating a framework for learning, encouraging a questioning attitude, providing learning strategies and presenting an appropriate role model.



We especially would like to say thanks to Kristin Mullaney, architect from the Architecture in Education Program in Philadelphia, for her support, constant collaboration and advices received
for the beginning of ARQUIKIDS.











I beg you don´t forget playfullness


Alvar Alto

First things first

By hook or by crook we'll be the first in this blog.
Do you want to be part of it?