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Champlin, Kellene N. – School Arts, 1981
Describes an interdisciplinary urban studies project for third graders, in which the children created, ran, and built a model of an imaginary city. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Grade 3

Hurwitz, Al – School Arts, 1979
Describes how a teacher used his travel experiences in Iran as a basis for an art project with his fifth and sixth grade students--building a model Near Eastern village out of clay. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Elementary Education, Middle Eastern Studies

Speight, Jerry – School Arts, 1980
Described is a secondary school project in the creation of inflatable sculptures, from small forms to large, inhabitable structures. (SJL)
Descriptors: Air Structures, Architecture, Art Activities, Sculpture

Hammond, Mary Alice – School Arts, 1981
Describes a combined local history/printmaking project conducted by students in grades one through nine at Armitage Academy in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Students studied and drew local buildings and printed the results as a calendar. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Sharples, Steve – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1987
Questions "community architecture" as not being a discrete and homogeneous set of images about activities and products. Differentiates between the distinct, and possibly contradictory, approaches to architecture taken by Prince Charles of Great Britain and Rod Hackney. (TW)
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Architectural Research, Architecture, Citizen Participation

Proia, Lina Mancini; Menghini, Marta – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1984
Focusing on why the elliptical form in architecture is found only in the baroque period, discusses the development of the conic section and interactions in the baroque period with art, astronomy, and mathematics. An experimental approach to the topic carried out with high school seniors is reported. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Astronomy, High Schools

Rush, Jean C.; Gallo, Rubina – School Arts, 1981
Describes a games-based instructional kit for elementary students on visual literacy, art vocabulary, and environmental design called "The Art Connection." The kit utilizes a teaching strategy called "See-Imagine-Do" which is further described in an article on pp13-17 of this issue. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Educational Games, Educational Strategies
Duncan, Patricia L. – 1989
The Louisiana Department of Education produces two curriculum guides for use in teaching Louisiana Studies at the eighth grade level. Very little information on Louisiana architecture is included. The Division of Historic Preservation proposed and obtained funds for a cooperative project between themselves and the Department of Education that…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architecture, Building Design, Cooperative Planning
Camping Magazine, 1987
Provides blueprints and color photographs and describes outstanding features of six winners of the camp architecture competition sponsored by "Camping Magazine." Winners are in the categories of support facilities, housing, program facilities, and recreation facilities. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Architecture, Awards, Building Design, Building Plans

Sandler, Alan R. – Nature Study, 1983
The American Institute of Architects (AIA), recognizing the interrelationship between the human environment and the natural environment, has prepared materials (Learning by Design) to help people make wise decisions about the environment. The role of the AIA in environmental education and the Learning by Design materials are described. (JN)
Descriptors: Architecture, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Institutional Role

Yinger, Robert J. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
Describes learning to teach as a task involving learning to think and act in ways appropriate to the profession's demands. Describes the language of practice, using common sense and practical analyses of knowledge and action. Illustrates these concepts with a study of student teachers and applies architecture's pattern language to teaching.…
Descriptors: Architecture, Beginning Teachers, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Wates, Nick; Knevitt, Charles – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1987
Discriminates between "community architecture" and conventional approaches to architecture. Focuses on community architecture as it relates to the participation of users in their environment, the establishment of partnerships between specialists from different fields, and the evolutionary development of people's environmental needs. (TW)
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Programing, Architecture, Citizen Participation

El Bassiouny, Mahmoud – School Arts, 1980
The author's art instruction for young Egyptian children focuses on design, creative expression, and appreciation of Egypt's unique artistic tradition. This article is one of several in this issue on art education in other countries. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Education, Art History, Creative Art

Kauppinen, Heta – School Arts, 1980
Finnish educators are concerned with the affective and aesthetic aspects of environmental education, with sensitivity to the urban, as well as the natural, environment. This article, one of several in this issue on art education in other countries, describes how human environment concepts are used in Finnish art teaching. (SJL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architecture, Art Activities, Art Education

Danzer, Gerald A.; Newman, Mark – Social Studies, 1992
Discusses the unique perspective that the built environment brings to the study of history. Presents questions that can be used to analyze a building to examine identification, form, function, and impact. Suggests that studying a building is like conducting a micro study of the development of a society. (DK)
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Built Environment, Elementary Secondary Education