Architecture Camps for Kids

Summer camp is a popular way for children to experience new things while having fun. Children and teenagers who are interested in architecture can find opportunities to learn about it at specialized summer camps. Architecture camps give children an opportunity to explore the field in depth and possibly benefit from hands-on experience alongside professional architects.

  1. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Architecture Camp

    • Frank Lloyd Wright is considered by many to be America's premiere architect. Since his death, the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation has worked to educate the public about his life and work. Every summer, a camp is offered as part of the foundation's Education Outreach Program, or EOP. Located at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin home in Spring Green, Wis., the camp is offered to students in grades 5-12. The program focuses on critical thinking to guide its campers through two separate architecture projects.

      On the Taliesin website, Shawn Rorke-Davis, EOP director for the Foundation, says, ̶0;Architecture Camp encourages creative thinking, helps prevent summer learning loss in key curriculum areas and provides students an opportunity to channel their passion, diversity and talent and have fun."

      Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
      Taliesin Preservation, Inc.
      P.O. Box 4430
      Scottsdale, AZ 85261-4430
      (480) 627-5355
      taliesinpreservation.org

    Penn State Architecture and Landscape Architecture Summer Camp

    • Penn State offers a four-day summer camp for high school students interested in architecture, landscape architecture and other closely aligned fields. Campers are mentored by faculty and students from the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and are offered the opportunity to use the facilities. The camp allows teenagers the chance study architecture at Penn State as well as nearby sites. Campers also learn to build models and use design software. Campers live on campus during camp, offering them a taste of college life.

      Department of Architecture
      The Pennsylvania State University
      426 Stuckeman Family Building
      University Park PA 16802
      814-865-3852
      outreach.psu.edu

    Kid Architecture Camp

    • At Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, the Division of Continuing Education reaches out to more than just adult learners. Campers between the ages of 9 and 18 can participate in the Kid Architecture camps directed by Architecture professor Jon Davey. Kid Architecture offers day camp programs for elementary school students and weeklong residential camps for middle and high school students. All of the programs are held on the SIUC campus, though they take field trips off site to look at historic buildings and construction sites. Campers learn about design and famous architects and experiment with the different tools of architecture during the sessions.

      Architecture Camp
      Division of Continuing Education
      Mailcode 6705
      Washington Square C
      Southern Illinois University
      Carbondale, IL 62901
      618-536-7751
      dce.siu.edu

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