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Kids Build

Exhibition, Hall cases, 9 December 2015 to 24 April 2016

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

Kids Build. Installation view, 2016.

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Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate.

It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they eventually render the child as well—as creative thinker, diligent worker, risk-taking entrepreneur, or happy consumer. As Charles Eames remarked, “Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.”

Curator: Eszter Steierhoffer, CCA.
Graphic design: Sean Yendrys, New York / Montreal.

Jeremias Wachsmuth. Præsentation eines Erdbebens (representation of an earthquake), c. 1735. BIB 20068

Cathedral Games, Woodland Hills, California. Bob Moore, inventor. Cathedral board game, c. 1978. BIB 19907

Carrom Industries Inc, Ludington, Michigan. Gusher board game, c. 1946. BIB 195331

Friedrich Fröbel. Kindergarten Gift No. 2. Produced by Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, c. 1870. BIB 66745

Chuck Hoberman. Expanding microsphere prototypes, 1998. ARCH267654

Charles Eames. Wolken Kuckucks Haus (house of cards), 1961. Produced by O. Maier, Ravensburg, Germany, 1986

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher. Bauspiel (building game), 1923. Produced by Naef AG, Zeiningen, Switzerland, c. 1980. TS2301 T7 W6N34 1980

A.C. Gilbert Co., New Haven, Connecticut. Erector skyscraper set, 1935. TS2301.T7.M4 M973 1935

Naef AG, Zeiningen, Switzerland. Quadrigo, 1993

Clara E. Sipprell, phtoographer. Children playing with building blocks, 1920s. PH1987:0287

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