This activity was designed for hypothetical 9th grade studio in art students. The lessons in this activity focus on the “big ideas” of community and transformation. Though this project, students will learn how communities can be transformed through architecture and develop an idea to transform their own communities using architecture and spatial design. First, students will define for themselves what community means, and what creates a “good” community. Then students will identify which communities they are a part of, and the others that exist in those communities with them. From there, students will analyze what the feeling of the community is currently and identify an aspect they think needs development or improvement. Students will then develop a ‘parti pris’, or underlying principle and guiding goal for their architecture project. The goal of each student’s project may be different. The “parti pris” for this activity is transforming or creating thriving communities through meaningful architecture.

1. INTERPRETERS OF TIME
ARCHITECTS:

2. LESSON ONE:
INTRODUCTION

3. C O M M U N I T Y
“A group of people living in the same place, or
having something in common.”
“A feeling of fellowship with others.”

4. CAN
ARCHITECTURE EFFECT
COMMUNITY?

5. P R I N Z E S S I N N E N G A RT E N

8. FRANK GEHRY
“ARCHITECTURE SHOULD SPEAK OF ITS TIME & PLACE, BUT YEARN FOR TIMELESSNESS.”

10. DOES IT MATTER
WHAT BUILDINGS
LOOK LIKE?
WHAT IF OUR SCHOOL LOOKED
LIKE THIS ———>

11. S TA R T S W I T H C O M M U N I T Y
N E E D S
D E S I G N S A B U I L D I N G T O
C H A N G E T H E
E N V I R O N M E N T
FRANK GEHRY

12. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“THE MOTHER ART IS ARCHITECTURE. WITHOUT ARCHITECTURE OF OUR OWN WE HAVE
NO SOUL OF OUR OWN CIVILIZATION.”

14. “OUR CLIENTS TELL US HOW
THOSE BUILDINGS WE BUILT
FOR THEM HAVE CHANGED
THE CHARACTER OF THEIR
WHOLE LIFE, AND THEIR
WHOLE EXISTENCE.”
F.L.W.

15. LESSON TWO:
WHICH CAME FIRST?

16. Form
F U N C T I O N

18. – F R A N K L L O Y D W R I G H T
“Form follows function - that has been
misunderstood. Form and function should be one,
joined in a spiritual union.”

19. PAR TI PRIS
an architect's overall guiding idea for a design.

21. LESSON THREE:
SKETCH UP

23. L E S S O N F O U R :
C A R D B O A R D C O N S T R U C T I O N

29. SCORING

30. LESSON FIVE:
PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS