Shop by Topic
Shop by Product
ExchangeEveryDay Past Issues
<< Previous Issue
| View Past Issues | | Next Issue >> 
From Block Play to Architecture
July 19, 2023
What kind of people do we want to be? As human as we can be, in support of children being as human as they can be.
-Ann Pelo and Margie Carter, From Teaching to Thinking
-Ann Pelo and Margie Carter, From Teaching to Thinking
|
"Now came the geometric play of these charming checkered colour combinations! ...The smooth shapely maple blocks with which to build, the sense of which never afterwards leaves the fingers: so form became feeling. And the box with a mast to set upon it, on which to hang with string the maple cubes and spheres and triangles, revolving them to discover subordinate forms. "That early kindergarten experience with the straight line; the flat plane; the square; the triangle; the circle! If I wanted more, the square modified by the triangle gave the hexagon, the circle modified by the straight line would give the octagon. Adding thickness, getting 'sculpture' thereby, the square became the cube, the triangle the tetrahedron, the circle the sphere. "These primary forms and figures were the secret of all effects... which were ever got into the architecture of the world." |
ExchangeEveryDay
Delivered five days a week containing news, success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more.
What is ExchangeEveryDay?
ExchangeEveryDay is the official electronic newsletter for Exchange Press. It is delivered five days a week containing news stories, success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more.
Post a Comment