Call for Nominations

Architects-In-Residence

LBD:SC will engage children, educators and designers in classroom programs that cultivate real-world architectural awareness through fostering students’ vocabulary, observation skills, critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving. Students will be given the opportunity and the skills to express their ideas about architecture, about their communities and towns, and about themselves through design.

Curricula will be tailored to meet state and national teaching standards as well as individual school and district needs. Classes will be co-taught by classroom teachers together with Architects-in-Residence. Teachers and Architects-in-Residence will teach nine one-hour design sessions to their students.

The long-term benefits will be to AIAcharleston in promoting the awareness of architecture and the profession to children and students. Additional long-term benefits will be to the state of South Carolina as design can be used to promote educational values.

Click here for a link to the LBD : SC Blog tracking the progress of the program.

Click here for a presentation on the 2007/08 LBD : SC program.

Click here for lesson plans from the 2007/08 LBD : SC program.

LBD:SC's Goals:

• To give students the opportunity and the skills they need to communicate their ideas about the built and natural environments, about community, and about themselves
• To engage students in architectural awareness with architects, designers, and planners
• To give educators the training and support they need to engage children in interdisciplinary, curriculum-based architectural awareness and design projects
• To enable the next generation to build a better future for themselves, their city, and the state of South Carolina.

Proposed Topics:

• Introduction to Architecture and Design
• Building Visual Literacy Through Built Environment Education
• Designing Our Community
• How Buildings Work
• Architecture, Geography and Climate
• South Carolina Architecture and History
• Scale and Measurement in Architecture
• Mapping and Urban Design
• Public Art and Public Spaces
• Architecture and Design in Literature

Architect In Residence Nomination Procedures
Individuals may apply to LBD:SC or be nominated. Nominees are asked to submit all of the following:

1. a letter stating their reasons for wishing to participate in the pilot project
2. a resume indicating the nominees qualifications and contact information
3. a brief description of any previous teaching experience.

SUBMIT NOMINATIONS/APLICATIONS TODAY

Nominations can be postmarked to the address below:.

Learning By Design
LBD:SC
AIAcharleston
PO Box 21122
Charleston, SC 29413
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