FREE Architecture Curriculum

Published:
February 22, 2014

Carrie Fernandez

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Did you know there are many FREE Architecture Curricula online? I didn’t! 

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FREE Course – Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes


Course Description from Website:
This subject introduces skills needed to build within a landscape establishing continuities between the built and natural world. Students learn to build appropriately through analysis of landscape and climate for a chosen site, and to conceptualize design decisions through drawings and models.

How to get the course:
Click this link and then you have to navigate the left menu system that says “Download Course Materials.” This could be used as a high school credit course.

You can find other Architecture curriculum (as well as tons of other subjects) for free here. Note, these come from universities, so subjects like history, science, religion, etc. should be pre-screened. Most of this was released BEFORE Common Core, but you should check that too!

Other Websites with FREE Architecture Curriculum

www.architecturecourses.org – Architecture and design courses for free

Amazing Skyscrapers  – In this lesson from Discovery Education, your students will learn basic ideas used by architects & engineers who designed some of the world’s most amazing skyscrapers. At the end of the class, kids will use their research and scale drawings to create a skyline for your schoolroom/house. If you are like me, the dining room, lol. 

Top 9 Free Architecture Lesson Plans & Activities

A free online architecture class

Free Online Architecture Engineering Course – Architectural Construction and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

You can also find a bunch of really inexpensive unit studies on architecture at CurrClick!

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