You must be accepted into the residency program by Fallingwater before attending and before registering on this site for Act 48 credit.

This is an onsite residency program and you will be required to stay onsite from June 23 through June 30, 2010.

This interdisciplinary course is for all K-12 educators and helps educators use the architectural design process to foster creative thinking in any subject area.

Using Frank Lloyd Wright´s Fallingwater as a classroom, teacher residents study the lessons of Wright´s organic architecture, and apply them in hands-on workshops and studios. The course uses an activity-based inquiry approach, emphasizing problem solving as an important educational method. Designed for teachers who want to incorporate an architectural curriculum into any course of study, participants use the process of discovery as a model for student-directed learning.

Participants learn to articulate, analyze, and interpret the built environment through an extended on-site study of Fallingwater from historical, architectural, and aesthetic perspectives. Hands-on studios in architectural and landscape design form the basis of the application process. Beyond an invigorating look at architecture education, participants will explore how to use design to enrich the human relationship with the natural world.

Participants will design and build temporary installations that explore how buildings and the natural environment interrelate. Participants use a local community as the subject of "Walk Around the Block," a workshop in visual literacy that teaches how to use primary sources (buildings, their residents, and documents) to understand local history. The course will provide applications for use in participants´ own schools and communities, and a course guide with activities, bibliographies, and other resources in architectural education. Participants are required to dress appropriately for outdoor and light building experiences.