Architecture Everywhere Investigating the Built Environment of Your Community

by Weber, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9781569761076
• ISBN10: 1569761078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP

Summary

Written to introduce students to the built environment, this guide supplies educators with a program to teach architecture as a unit or as a topic with interdisciplinary connections to social studies, language arts, visual arts, media production, journalism, and more. Explorations of how modern homes and communities have been shaped by such forces as sense of place, historical and cultural connections to buildings, and ethnic traditions lead students to understand the modern man-made world. Rather than encouraging students to passively accept information, this guide encourages investigation through many different activities including carving, researching, drawing, designing, and interviewing.

Author Biography

Joseph Weber is a specialist in American architecture and a professor of art education.

Table of Contents

Introduction for Teachers	p. v
Introduction for Students	p. viii
What Is a Sense of Place? Do I Have One?	p. 1
Looking at Our Humanmade World	p. 3
Homes and Neighborhoods: A Mix for Remembering	p. 5
Special People: Memories and a Sense of Place	p. 9
How Visual Artists Share Experiences and Memories	p. 13
Our Historical and Cultural Connections to Buildings	p. 35
Buildings All around Town: A Visible Reminder of People, Ideas, and Their Time	p. 37
Shopping Around	p. 40
The Gas Station and the Automobile Culture	p. 42
Drive-Ins: Past, Present, and Future	p. 45
What Our Ancestors Left Us: Cultural Groups and Their Building Traditions	p. 59
Exploring Culture	p. 61
The First American Architects and Builders	p. 63
Ideas from Africa, China, and Europe Add to American Architecture	p. 66
Steps in Style	p. 81
Defining Style	p. 83
Learning to Be an Architectural Detective	p. 85
The Early Years	p. 87
The Romantic and Victorian Periods	p. 89
Turn of the Nineteenth Century	p. 91
The Revivals	p. 92
Designs of the Twentieth Century	p. 96
Every Person's Home Is a Castle	p. 123
The Evolution of the American Home	p. 125
Early Homes	p. 126
Evolving Technology	p. 130
Contemporary: 1940 to Present	p. 133
Homes of the Future	p. 137
Want to Become an Architect? Creating with Form and Function	p. 159
Visiting with the Architect: Form, Function, and the Client	p. 161
Two Great American Architects	p. 164
Design Elements and Principles	p. 167
Appendix	p. 195
Glossary	p. 206
Bibliography for Teachers	p. 211
Bibliography for Students	p. 213
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