Posts Tagged ‘LEGOS’

Cue the Fast Russian Music…

I never can quite pinpoint exactly what it was in my childhood that has led me to my professional obsession with designy-type goodness. 

Was it the constant coloring

Was it Play-Doh overload (perhaps ingested one time too many)? 

Was it the massive Lego collection we amassed as children that was only too eagerly egged on by my engineer of a father?

Or was it the hours I spent in front of a screen fitting oddly shaped blocks together as a muscial theme moves quicker and quicker in the background?

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Okay, it was probably a combination of all three, but I’m still quite drawn to any of these things.  It …

LEGOS!!!!!

When I ask my friends, who are pretty much all architects, what they play with as a child, the answer that comes back most often is LEGOS. 

So I guess it doesn’t come as a surprise that they are coming out with an architecture series with the Frank Lloyd Wright collection being the first.   There are six planned sets, which includes the Guggenheim museum in New York and Fallingwater.

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But it still does not beat the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer… :D