Some Horizon Elementary School students may be eyeing their surroundings differently now.
That's the hope of architect Arlan Kay, who recently presented a program called an Afternoon of Architecture for some third and fifth graders in the Sun Prairie School District. He brought boxes of miniature bricks, blocks, bridge parts and other materials to teach the students about building design and city planning.
Kay told the students they were "architectives" because they were considering architecture as detectives — unlocking the mystery to why buildings are constructed a certain way and look the way they do.
"It's a discovery. They're investigating," he said later. "It's to try and make them look and discover the built world around them."
In an interview afterward, it was clear that Kay succeeded with fifth-grader Annie Benzine.
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