Martin Kohlbauer – A story of a genius Architect.
Imagine… what if you were a musician living in 2023 and you had the opportunity to meet, say, John Lennon? Ok, you would first need a time machine. Assuming you somehow shrug off this tiny snag, you’d still have to set the dials to the right place and time, try really hard not to land […]
Award-Winning NYC Preschools – An Interview with Architect Alexandra Barker
As an architect focused on the creation of innovative environments for children, I always look for inspiration in different places, and it’s important to me to learn about the planning of educational facilities around the world. On one of my searches for inspiration I came across Ms. Alexandra Barker, the principal of Barker Associates Architecture […]
Beyond Four Walls: Where Psychology, Movement, and Architecture Meet
Look at your children—they are intuitively born with a desire for movement. Even as infants, they try to be in motion. In early childhood, they’ll want to run ahead of us, jump on something that looks to adults like just another random object in space, and skip around for no apparent reason. Ironically, sometimes we […]
Connections between the NY skyline and children-oriented architecture
So Far Away Another hot Israeli summer , and with COVID-19 still hanging around, it’s not clear when we’ll be able to fly anywhere. I look at the photos from my visit to NYC this past winter, a mere few weeks prior to COVID-19 breaking out there, and it now all seems so far away. […]
Another Brick in the Wall – Architecture of educational spaces as a key to children’s success in the 21st century
We are the children of the 21st century. More than ever, we want to feel special but also desperately need to feel part of some kind of group. We see our parents fewer hours than former generations yet know we can get anything we want by the click of a button on our cellphone. It’s […]