To understand a people, study them where they live. Construct simplified model houses to consider the climates, resources, materials and traditions that define culture. Focus on a region. Focus on a historic area. Focus on a common pursuit like baking bread. Create façades of local architecture.
Shelter
Chinese Gate
Benin stilt house and dugout
Greek temple to goddess Athena
Ndebele House South Africa, Mexican pueblito
Cameroon house
Roman Villa
European castle
We construct castles and temples, pyramids and pagodas from far off lands and far off centuries. We construct villas from ancient Rome and Egypt, stilt houses from the Rain Forest, elegant painted houses from the African savannah, adobe farm houses from the American southwest, sod houses from the prairie. Building connects the hands and minds of your students to the hands and minds of the world. Building connects your students.
No great architecture is built without the cooperation that builds community.
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Winter Schedule
During the winter, we teach school groups during the day either here in the Museum or away at schools.
Monday – Friday Office Hours 9am – 5pm
Walk-in Projects available during open hours on
Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday: 10am – 3pm
Sunday: 12 – 5pm
Phone: (203) 777-1833
Fax: (203) 777-1229
915 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
