(Photo above: Students at Elk Meadow Elementary with Mark Ward of Neal Huston Architects)
Students in eighteen Bend elementary school classrooms are learning about design, architecture, engineering and construction through the Architecture Foundation of Oregon’s Architects in Schools program. They are creating small-scale designs like an architect, engineer or contractor would, and the projects will be on public display in June.
Through the Architects in Schools program, students learn:
That design is all around us and we make decisions every day that affect our environment
How the subjects they study in school apply to the real world outside of school
That there are many people who create the spaces in which we live, learn, work and play and some examples of their jobs, e.g., architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, contractors and urban planners
Skills that help them to work better in groups, to communicate their ideas
That designing and building spaces is a process as well as a product
Student projects will be on display for First Friday, June 2 from 5:30-8:30pm at the Liberty Theater, 849 NW Wall.
Architecture Foundation of Oregon Architects in Schools
https://af-oregon.org/programs/architects-in-schools
