Young Architects Program

Children and teenagers can be surprisingly creative designers and budding builders. The light-hearted Young Architects Program inspires children and teenagers to explore the built environment across cultures and time. Students approach architecture as a discipline that draws upon different skills and fields of knowledge such as engineering, mathematics, science, design, art, social studies, urban and environmental planning. They are encouraged to look at nature for amazing clues and design solutions for human habitat.

Students engage in hands-on activities to understand principles of architecture such as design, order, balance, form, function, aesthetics and sustainability. They learn to generate ideas using both three-dimensional processes such as making rapid concept models and two-dimensional processes such as design sketching. Through weekly practice, students gain mastery over making visual mock ups and more elaborate models.