Designing a bedroom suite for a River Forest home

                     Building a beach house model

Architecture Adventure taps into Oak Park’s wealth of architecture and professionals in the field to inspire student learning. District 97 students in art classes, after-school clubs and a summer camp learn about architecture, work with visiting architects, design and build projects, and take field trips to Oak Park and Chicago sites of interest.

Launched by the Oak Park Education Foundation in the fall of 2006 in middle school Applied Arts classes, Architecture Adventure brings the experience, expertise and passion of professional architects, engineers and designers into the classroom. The program is rapidly expanding to elementary school art and core curriculum classrooms.

Architecture Adventure:

• engages children in skillful decision-making
• teaches students about built environments throughout the world
• inspires students with visits to significant architectural sites