What Would YOUR Architect's Dog House Look Like?

What lucky dogs! The students in Martha & Elisa's 8 & 9 year old class have finished their in-depth study of architecture. Their final products, on display in the elementary library, show how they imagine a dog house designed by their architect would look. Starting with a simple little cardboard structure, each student embellished, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted the original "dog house" into a creation in the style of some of the most cutting-edge architects in the world. Other students ooh, aah and exclaim when they see them, and of course the proud researchers will be on the lookout for buildings by "their" architect for a lifetime. When they delivered them to the library, several students exclaimed to one another, "Hey, we're neighbors!" Herewith, a few samples from the library neighborhood: A dog house by...

by Alvaro Siza

by Michael Graves




by Christian de Portzamparc and Jorn Utzon




by Neel Reid and Eero Saarinen


by Julia Morgan
(the student took the swimming pool home after damage)


by Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Bruce Graham and Santiago Calatrava


by Charles Rennie, Zaha Hadid and Leila Ross Wilburn




by Oscar Niemeyer and Antonio Gaudi


by Frank Lloyd Wright


by Luis Barragan


by Philip Shutze


by Rem Koohass



by Richard Meier


by Frank Gehry



by Richard Rogers and I.M. Pei


by Mario Botta


by Gottfried Norman


by Hans Hollein