By C.J. Hirschfield
In a world of tablets and screens, wooden toy blocks may get passed over as quaint or boring. But as I recently learned, they remain one of the best ways to encourage children’s imaginations and spatial skills. In fact, playing with wooden blocks started the career of one of our nation’s most renowned architects – and he wasn’t shy about crediting the blocks’ creator, who also invented the modern kindergarten.
In a world of tablets and screens, wooden toy blocks may get passed over as quaint or boring. But as I recently learned, they remain one of the best ways to encourage children’s imaginations and spatial skills. In fact, playing with wooden blocks started the career of one of our nation’s most renowned architects – and he wasn’t shy about crediting the blocks’ creator, who also invented the modern kindergarten.
While touring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
home and studio in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week, I admired the compound’s
creativity and whimsy as well as the groundbreaking techniques for which the
architect is known.
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| The design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West was inspired by the architect’s early use of children’s blocks |
