Integrated Sustainable Design

Remember growing up and playing with Legos? I and probably every other person I know in architecture do. Legos were the ultimate building tool, capable of making the most advanced space ships, powerful vehicles, impressive buildings, and incredible cities. As a child, everyone I knew loved Legos, and this never seemed to change. In high school, whenever a conversation with friends happened to shift upon Legos, everyone would gleefully reminisce about their days making fantastic structures out of those awesome little building blocks. I even had a friend in college who used Legos to make a massing model for a project! Not the most refined material, perhaps, but it worked for the design concept. No doubt Legos played a supporting role in my growth in appreciation for architecture.

Well, when I recently found out that Legos has an architectural series featuring such famous buildings as the Space Needle, the Empire State Building, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling water, the child in me practically exploded with delight. Although I had plenty of Legos as a child, I never had any sets geared toward architecture. Now that there's an Architectural Series, I'm imagining a whole new generation of children discovering the wonderful joys of architecture, getting interested in architecture, and become the future's architects. All thanks to Legos. After all, there's no better method of education than when it's made into a game or a toy.