North by New York Children's Workshops

Type: WITH THE KIDS
Date: 6/18/2011
Time: 1:00PM
Location: The Nordic Center in America
Address: 58 Park Ave.
                New York , New York

North by New York Children's Workshops
Saturday,June 18, 1-4 pm
$10 ($7 ASF Members), ages 4-10
Pre-registration is required
For reservations, call 212.847.9740 or email event_reservation@amscan.org.

Attention budding designers and architects! Love to build? In these hands-on workshops educators from the Salvadori Center will lead kids through a building project based on the exciting work on view in the North by New York: New Nordic Art exhibition.

Mario Salvadori (1907-1977), a world-renowned structural engineer and Columbia University professor of engineering and architecture, founded the Salvadori Center in 1987. He believed that the built environment contains the essential knowledge that a person needs to be a life-long learner and an informed, active member of society. Salvadori students experiment with forces, build model bridges, map neighborhoods, and design future cities. Using the urban landscape of buildings, tunnels, and bridges, the Salvadori Center introduces children and adults alike to the wonder, beauty, and logic of architecture and engineering.

Building Faces

June 18, 2011

Have you ever thought of a building as having a face? A building's door, windows, and other features come together to create the façade, or face. Looking at portraits on view in North by New York, kids will talk about how personality and identity is expressed by these artists. They will take what they discovered and apply it to the design of whimsical building façades using pop-up and collage techniques.

The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212.779.3587
Web: www.scandinaviahouse.org

www.scandinaviahouse.org