Learning by Design | 11/23/11

Eleanor Lygo Energy ran high at the Center for Architecture Foundation's Family Day on 11.12.11, as kids and their parents explored the Center for...

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Learning by Design | 11/10/11

Gina Pollara, executive director of the Four Freedoms Park, guided visitors through the construction site (left). John Kurtz, AIA, partner at Mitchell | Giurgola...

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Learning by Design | 10/26/11

On 10.15-16.11, the Center for Architecture Foundation, in partnership with openhousenewyork (OHNY), hosted several local organizations, providing children and their...

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Learning by Design | 10/12/11

Family Day participants present their architectural centerpieces that will be showcased at this year's Heritage Ball (left). Exhibition attendees admire the K-12...

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Learning by Design | 9/28/11

(Left): Board member Jerry Maltz, AIA, and staff member Catherine Teegarden facilitated a teacher workshop on the built environment for Lincoln Center Institute,...

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Learning by Design | 9/14/11

Students build stories with new building designs. Max Wolf Families gathered at the Center for Architecture on 09.10.11 to explore the stories every...

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Learning by Design | 8/31/11

Kristi Tremblay with the Jugaad Urbanism Student Day Group (left), and with the Girl Scouts Amazing Race (right). Catherine Teegarden Rebecca Parelman,...

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Learning by Design | 8/17/11

Dean Maltz and tour group tour the Metal Shutter House. Tim Hayduk The Center for Architecture Foundation's tour series New Buildings New York took 30...

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Learning by Design | 8/3/11

Students explore GLIMPSES. Kristi Tremblay Families gathered at the Center for Architecture on 07.09.11 to explore the Center's summer exhibition,...

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Learning by Design | 7/20/11

From the architecture student journals Contexture and Root. CFAF The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2011...

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Learning by Design | 7/7/11

Rachel Miller with the Mobile Architecture class (left); Mobile Architecture visits Governors Island. Catherine Teegarden Summer@theCenter has finally...

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Learning by Design | 6/22/11

LBD:NY design educator Jenny Lee with Hunter College Elementary students (left); Second Graders present their models of New Amsterdam (right); a panorama of the...

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Learning by Design | 6/8/11

From portfolios of Yinery Baez, Nick Tran, and Mark Thompson. Courtesy Center for Architecture Foundation The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased...

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Learning by Design | 5/25/11

CFAF tour guests making their way through the East Side Access construction site. Catherine Teegarden and Tim Hayduk The Center for Architecture...

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Learning by Design | 5/4/11

LBD:NY Design Educator Yves Roger (left); Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction students working on their bridge design project. Tim...

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Learning by Design | 4/20/11

A student displays her skyscraper design during the Center for Architecture Foundation and Skyscraper Museum dual program. Tim Hayduk In 2008, the Center...

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Learning by Design | 4/6/11

Courtesy Center for Architecture Foundation "Sunny Side Up," by Doris Sung. The Center for Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of...

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Learning by Design | 3/22/11

Roberta Washington, FAIA, with C.S. 154 students. Tim Hayduk Last month, Roberta Washington, FAIA, Center for Architecture Foundation (CFAF) 2009 Board...

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Learning by Design | 3/8/11

Event: Studio@theCenter Location: Center for Architecture, 02.22-24.11 Two "Street Smart Designer" students (left); third-sixth graders participate in the "From...

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Learning by Design | 2/22/11

Event: Family Day: Jugaad Urbanism: Designs for City Life Location: Center for Architecture, 02.19.11 Families visited the "Jugaad Urbanism" exhibition and then...

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Learning by Design | 2/8/11

Event: StudentDay@theCenter -- Urban Design Studio Location: Center for Architecture, 02.03.11 Educator: Heather Zusman Students present their urban...

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Learning by Design | 1/25/11

Jennifer Golan Last week, 15 self-selected 11th- and 12th-grade students from the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, Brooklyn Technical High...

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Learning by Design | 1/11/11

The Center for Architecture Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant, which was established to further the personal and...

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Learning by Design | 12/21/10

CFAF students built a model of a town from the Middle Ages. Catherine Teegarden This fall, 14 eight-to-10-year-old students were studying the Middle Ages as...

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Learning by Design | 12/8/10

Students from MAT worked in teams to construct scale models of "green" buildings. One group built a spiral apartment building with green roofs, wind turbines,...

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Learning by Design | 11/23/10

A student in the CFAF after-school Digital Design Studio works on his 3-D personal shelter using Google SketchUp. Maggie Yolen Three-dimensional modeling...

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Learning by Design | 11/9/10

"Building Connections 2010," the Center for Architecture Foundation's (CFAF) 14th annual exhibition of K-12 student design work, opened on Thursday, 11.04.10 at the...

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Learning by Design | 10/13/10

On 10.07.10, visitors toured the Empire State Building with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the Clinton Climate Initiative, and other leaders from the...

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Learning by Design | 9/28/10

English architect Sir John Soane's London home (left); the site of medieval castle ruins and a hermit's cell in Knaresbourgh, Yorkshire. Richard William Hayes,...

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Learning by Design | 9/14/10

Center for Architecture Foundation volunteer Ted Mineau (left). Parents and children at a Family Day program. Maggie Yolen The Center for Architecture...

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