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Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Toy as meaning
the toy is a particular part of the material culture, considered as an artifact that represents the relationship between artifacts and social behaviors, where the representative function stays both before and at the base of its practical function (Brougre & Wajskop, 2008).
For a toy the main symbolic value is the function ... as happens in art
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
Middle-class children are given an enormous number of toys (tool sets, minikitchens, baseballs, dolls) because they are models of things that invoke in play the behaviors or skills required in later life (Stephen Kline. 1993, p. 15).
Bloomingdale catalog 1957
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
Indeed almost each disciplinary field has its own representation in toys production, creation or consumption. Even Architecture
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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This celebrated childrens educationalist, founder of the kindergarten, is increasingly accepted by modern art historians as one of the key figures behind the advent of avant-garde art. (Bordes, 2010)
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
1901 Meccano
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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In 1923 Andr Citron said Je veux que tous les enfants de France et de Navarre aient comme premiers mots : Papa, Maman et Citron Citroen was the first car producer with a toy cars catalogue.
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, 1923 Puppets for the Oskar Schlemmer Stage Workshop 1923
Ko Verzuu, 1920s
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Tri-ang ultra modern dollhouse, 1930s FAO Schwarz,1940 Dollhouse furniture, 1930s
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Industrial architecture
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Magnetic architecture
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Kite architecture
Baukasten, 1960
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
Triangular system
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Geodesic architecture
Ramagon, 1985
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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The computer game prepares a new generation based on the representation and far from the object and the construction processes. Computer was a undiscussed device... for everything.
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
By the early 1960s Meccano Ltd was bought out by Lines Bros Ltd (Tri-ang). In 1970 Lines Brothers changed the company name to Meccano-Tri-ang. In 1971 the Lines Brothers Tri-ang group went into voluntary liquidation and Meccano-Tri-ang was sold to Airfix industries in 1972. At the same time, General Mills, a United States toy manufacturer, purchased the majority of shares of Meccano France S.A., renaming the French company Miro-Meccano. During the 70s several toy companies had financial problems
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
Louvre, 1989
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Boulderblocks
Balancing blocks
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac
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Oliblock
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP
Lego Architecture
It does exist an architectural education (that is not teaching architecture) This education need some specific actions (narratives) and devices. Toys are an important part of these artifacts because they can mean an intellectual and artistic configuration (composition rules, materials, ideological framework, etc) But connection between architecture ant toys is changing also because architecture is changing.
More information: architoys.blogspot.com
Design education through toy design. Old and new paradigms in architectural toys design - Marco Ginoulhiac FAUP