Planning a trellised vineyard
Designing a bedroom suite for a River Forest home
Building a beach house model
Architecture Adventure taps into Oak Park's wealth of architecture and professionals in the field to inspire student learning. District 97 students learn about architecture, work with visiting architects, design and build projects, and take field trips to Oak Park and Chicago sites of interest.
Launched by the Oak Park Education Foundation in the fall of 2006, Architecture Adventure brings the experience, expertise and passion of professional architects, engineers and designers into the classroom. The program takes place in K-8th grade core curriculum and art classrooms.
Architecture Adventure:
"Students who were not normally engaged, or even interested in this topic, were thrilled working with an actual architect and technology that allowed them to be creative while learning like a professional. I, for one, learned a great deal about architecture, but also about using a program like Google Sketch Up to engage learners. An A+ program!"