"Arches to Zigzags: An Architecture ABC" (Harry N. Abrams, $18.95) is the fifth architecture book for children by Michael J. Crosbie and the photographer Steve Rosenthal, joined this time by Kit Rosenthal.
The exhibition will be the setting for a storytelling and architecture workshop for children 5 to 12, Sunday from 2 30 to 3 45 p.m., commemorating the destruction of the temple on Tisha b'Av.
The workshop that is subject to the study is to use today's technological advances for gaining better understanding of architecture for kindergarten children.
The museum will offer a program on architecture and engineering for children 8 to 13, with participants constructing buildings and bridges, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon.
The activities were adapted from Architecture and Children Design Education Programmee developed for children by Taylor, Vlastos, et al. At the end of the activities, the participating students were administered a questionnaire form consisting of open-ended questions so that they could make an evaluation of the programme.
Off the Mall, in the revitalized neighborhood of the new MCI Center sports arena, the National Building Museum (401 F Street Northwest; 202-272-2448; $5 donation; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday), housed in the echoing 19th-century Pension Bureau building, is great for children and architecture lovers.
Cook studied architecture for a few years, before becoming a composer for children's television and TV adverts, as well as playing in brooding post-Britpop band Aereogramme.
There are great little museums, three centuries of American architecture, historic military sites, extensive gardens and lots of programs for children.
The paper proposes a two-layer pattern recognition system architecture for asthma wheezing detection in recorded children's respiratory sounds.
