Lesson Planning
Discover the buildings of Venturi and Scott-Brown and explore the buildings they designed. Learn about their approach to architectural design and create your own location-sensitive architectural design.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To learn about Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown’s approach to architecture.
- To draw the façade/elevation of a new school building.
- To measure the area of rooms on a plan by counting squares.
- To draw plan of their classroom
- To design and draw a plan and elevation for an additional building to their school grounds.
Children will:
- Explore Venturi and Scott-Brown’s approach to building design.
- Draw a plan of a room in their school.
- Design a new building for the school using Venturi and Scott-Brown’s approach to architecture.
- Work out the area of a room in their school and in their designed building by counting squares.
- Draw a plan and elevation drawing of their proposed design.