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Dwellings Around the Globe

In this activity students will explore dwellings across the globe. They will conduct collaborative research on cliff dwellings, igloos, longhouses, and yurts.

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	Coast-to-Coast B...
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	Put Your Best Fa...
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	Turn Off the Tub...

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6/22/2007 3:46:39 PM Posted By Susan Miller This year at the National Association for Art Education I heard a presentation by the high school art teacher there, Rick Knivsland. I was very impressed with the work that he has done, not in a school like CHAD which is devoted to architecture, but with the amount of energy he has put into designing an architecture course for his school. It reminded me of some of what we did at SDI - asking students to describe a house that has meant a lot to them...or a house that feels like a home...or a significant experience in a building that is not a home. He described a number of his projects and one of them used a "flatpack" a system of prefab dwelling structure (see blu.dot)and a project, I think published on dwell.com "design a flatpack for your family". I was particularly impressed by his very low tech approach, especially in thinking about budget and space constraints confronting so many art educators. No maylines, drafting tables, and the like, but mainly relying on transfering images of plans and elevations and sections from graph paper. Anyway, Rick Knivsland has a website, www.pls.uni.edu/BltEned/A+D@pls/website/ and you can find more about what he has done with architecture there, as well as some other courses. Some of the website is still under construction, but the architecture page is complete. Hope that you find this useful.

6/22/2007 3:46:39 PM

Posted By Susan Miller

This year at the National Association for Art Education I heard a presentation by the high school art teacher there, Rick Knivsland. I was very impressed with the work that he has done, not in a school like CHAD which is devoted to architecture, but with the amount of energy he has put into designing an architecture course for his school. It reminded me of some of what we did at SDI - asking students to describe a house that has meant a lot to them...or a house that feels like a home...or a significant experience in a building that is not a home. He described a number of his projects and one of them used a "flatpack" a system of prefab dwelling structure (see blu.dot)and a project, I think published on dwell.com "design a flatpack for your family". I was particularly impressed by his very low tech approach, especially in thinking about budget and space constraints confronting so many art educators. No maylines, drafting tables, and the like, but mainly relying on transfering images of plans and elevations and sections from graph paper. Anyway, Rick Knivsland has a website, www.pls.uni.edu/BltEned/A+D@pls/website/ and you can find more about what he has done with architecture there, as well as some other courses. Some of the website is still under construction, but the architecture page is complete. Hope that you find this useful.

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