Architecture

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Architecture

• Discuss
• Architects design structures
• Architects consider the site
• Façade front of a building
• Parts of a Home (entrance, windows, porch, roof,
  chimney, decorative features like pillars,
  columns, window boxes)

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Architect

• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Born in 1867
• Famous American Architect
• Designed more than 1000 structures, with more
  than 500 of them built
• Designed his structures to fit into the
  location/environment

• Fallingwater House by Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1935 (Pennsylvania)

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Paper SculptureHomes Our Community

• Art Supplies
• Paper Bags
• Newspaper for stuffing
• Stapler
• Construction Paper Scraps
• Large paper for base
• Scissors
• Glue
• Markers

Idea Images retrieved March 2013
from http//snippetygibbet.blogspot.ca/2011/02/fir
st-grade-architecture.html
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Paper SculptureHomes Our Community

• Process
• Decide on the size/shape you want
• stuff, fold the top staple the bag.
• Design a roof, add detail with
• marker and glue it on.
• Cut out shapes to use as
• architectural elements. Draw lines
• shapes with markers to add
• details before gluing on.
• Situate your building and add
• landscape shapes and details.

Idea Images retrieved March 2013
from http//snippetygibbet.blogspot.ca/2011/02/fir
st-grade-architecture.html
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Paper SculptureHomes Our Community

• I Can
• Use paper to create a 3D building
• Practice proper cutting gluing skills
• Include architectural detail
• Describe the sculpture I create
• (e.g. with reference to use of architectural
  terms such as door, window, roof, facade
  artistic intent, challenges encountered, best
  part)

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Picture Books about Architecture