Adventures in Architecture for Kids

  4  SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

MANY INDIGENOUS BUILDINGS were designed to work with natural resources, but the industrial revolution during the late 1800s changed the way we live with nature. Today, architects are re-learning the old ways of design and are embracing new ideas to create better buildings.

This chapter takes your designs to the extremes. You’ll design a place to survive during extreme cold, exile, pandemic, food shortages, and water shortages. These conditions are becoming important scenarios for architects to consider and plan for. We’ll focus on creating architecture that works effectively with materials and the environment. These projects also ask you think about how to build houses that allow us to live more safely in the twenty-first ...