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Who doesn?t know about Lego" You have probably built one or two or a hundred models from these plastic interlocking blocks as a kid (and maybe not just as a kid). The manufacturers of these toy blocks have targeted ?learning and development through play?, and we can safely assume that they have achieved more than what they had bargained for. After 66 years from its kick-start in Billund, Denmark, LEGO managed to become the world?s most powerful brand. Now, Lego does not only stand for the toy construction set but also for movies, books, children clothing, and video games. However, the product range that intrigues us the most as architects is none other than the, relatively, recent Lego Architecture. Photography: Arto Alanenpää via Wikimedia Common (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Origins of Lego Architecture
The Lego sub-brand has presented us, since 2008, with 32 models of world famous landmarks from different eras, like the Villa Savoye, the Big Ben, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The idea for the new line was naturally inspired by the initial purpose of these blocks as toy construction set. Lego Architecture, though, was not the brand?s first product range to deal with architecture.
Lego Architecture Villa Savoye Box – Courtesy of LEGO
In 1961, Lego introduced the product range ?Scale Model? to cope with the people?s rising interest in designing their own homes back at the time. Almost 50 years later, Adam Reed Tucke...