Sacred Space

There is no better tool to help you explain art or architecture than an image-filled slide show. Classic Greek art, architecture, and engineering are all described with excellent visual examples and text which defines each form by its...

A challenge to viewers: create your own personal space where you are free to relax and make as much noise as you want. Challenge accepted! Here is a video that focuses on the architectural side of engineering, as well as the process...

Calculators, chairs, bookcases as art? Sure. The "Art/Architecture" playlist welcomes viewers to the world and work of Dieter Rams, designer of everyday things. 

Check out several astronaut space programs designed for future astronauts or just curious, young scientists of all ages. See camp video, check calendar schedules, and read about the simulators at the camp site.

M.C. Escher is famous for creating optical illusions. Examine this effect in several of his works and discuss the techniques involved. Inspired by the discussion, learners create an imaginary 3-D world inside of a box using various...

Students design a solution to a problem based on the Industrial Revolution. For this design lesson plan, students come up with architectural designs and present them to teachers in a simulated factory.

Students investigate the broad range of jobs that can be found in the world of design. Students explore sound design, language architecture, etc. Students design a resource book and post it on a website for others to share.

Students explore architectural design.  In this critical thinking and architecture lesson, students view a number of websites providing proposals for design plans of a new World Trade Center.  Students choose and evaluate three possible...

Students discover building plans and practice reading measurements.  For this architectural design lesson, students investigate the areas of the specific World Trade Center locations that need to be rebuilt and determine the cost....

Students design specific structures appropriate for the World Trade Center site.  In this architecture design lesson, students use the Internet to research the original structures at the World Trade Center site and use painting or...