ARCHITECTURE of LEGO: Architecture professor finds lessons in LEGO

[@alexiwheelbarrow]

I study design at uni and I find a lot of concepts so hard to understand because they write and speak so esoterically. this is so accessible and so digestible. it's super helpful. Cheers.

[@GhostedStories]

Hard to imagine my childhood without Lego. I remember if I wanted something, like a gun, I'll make one. A truck, a tank, a boat for my G.I. Joe, I'll just make one.

[@mangosgottatango3573]

I used to build out of Legos a ton, very fun experiences formed from such a simple system. Thank you for the video!

[@the_neutral_container]

I used to make skyscrapers from Legos as a child in a 'low-res' style where something as small as a 2x4 stud brick could potentially be the entire footprint of a building. I then mounted them on street plates - so in retrospect my towns looked a bit like, say, Dubai. Haha!

[@TheDomenlc]

Love this channel, lucky to have found it! I was more of a Lincoln Logs kid myself, though this is the first I was told of their creator. I think what appeals most of Legos though is, like you said, the open ended possibility. If i were to buy a set, I'd surely end up with a derivative. The Empire State building might be the one I'd jump for, if I ever did.

[@PhoennixNova]

Very cool! Learned a bunch. Also laughed out loud when you said "really should be knolling this, but that's not how I roll"!

[@davidjgill4902]

The new LEGO kits don't really make sense to me. You build something exactly as the instructions tell you, then you put it on a shelf and look at it. When I was a kid (1960s) I had a huge box of legos, almost all of which were red or white in color with only 5 or 10 shape types. I don't think in those days LEGO offered any pre-conceived kits. Instead, they offered generic blocks that required some imagination to build something. I built vast building scapes and landscapes across the floor of an entire room that took days to complete. It was great fun, quite unlike what LEGO is today.

[@procrastinartist2825]

lego was def my fav game as a kid, it's no surprise that i'm an architect today

[@EdgarTheEagle]

You bet!....in the earliest 80's I built with Legos the house for my first and last white mouse pet, I remember some of the pieces included yellow color french windows, doors obviously without the glass so the mouse could breathe. Also, the Lego game came with color green foldable flat surfaces that became the grass floor around and the gable roof!...I guess I was predisposed to become the architect I am proud to be now ....😎 Ah! ...also with a couple of friends we built up Lego soccer goalies with some fabric net, pick a color and played soccer games with 3 touches and shoot with a dice soccer ball!!! Lol!!! You were able to locate your Lego goalkeeper and your barrier before the shoot. We became really skilful making goals after a while! Believe me!!! Oh boy! Lego world was the bomb!

[@ethankoh6851]

Sounds like a golden child hood

[@Brickamigos]

Great video, I am currently in my 3rd year of study of Environmental Design at the University of Manitoba and really appreciated your take on the Lego system as an architectural tool!

[@stewarthicks]

Glad you enjoyed it! Hello in Canada!

[@musamusashi]

Love how your videos dig into some serious architectural issues, while staying accessible to non architects like myself.

[@Archimarathon]

Awesome video as usual! Love the new direction/style though.

[@stewarthicks]

Yeah!? Thanks, trying some new stuff....

[@Archimarathon]

I read today from the latest Aalto movie that just came out. People used to ask Aalto what module he used. His answer... 1mm

[@Noel_IRL]

Minecraft is the new lego

[@TeachAManToAngle]

Agreed. I actually don’t mind my son using it in creative mode.

[@flynnrod1268]

@@TeachAManToAngleMe too.Like seriously.I literally designed a 200 square meter ancestral house for my family.Consist of mixed architectural style of postmodern.Expressionism and new formalism architecture.In my freaking smartphone.😁

[@stewarthicks]

What have you learned from Lego and what are your favorite sets?

[@gandalflotr2898]

The yellow submarine set ,Lord of the rings and architecture theme

[@mangosgottatango3573]

A lot of times when I tried to make a set i would usually just scrap it all together and make something of my own.

[@actual_tangerine]

🙈🙈🙈🙈 I have learned that they are called Lego (also in the plural).

[@aes53]

I built the Villa Savoy set and the Farnsworth House. I’m waiting for the E1027 set but I may be waiting a long time.

[@stinky59]

awesome video! lego are a really helpful teaching tool for this sort of thing. in one of my first architecture classes the first assignment was to make a building out of lego, draw elevations of it, and then painstakingly recreate it in autocad. iirc the teacher specifically chose lego because of the modularity and how each part has specific measurements, because it makes getting the dimensions of the cad model a little bit easier. he still keeps a bin of legos in the classroom in case anyone wants to use them to help come up with designs! :)

[@deliriouswith]

Great to see this video featured on ArchDaily too! Congrats Stewart!

[@milos3447]

9:29 my boy Andrew

[@SaiSantoshMARU]

This is nice! 'Comes with instructions, but can be customized.' Alejandro Aravena"s chile housing comes to my mind.

[@Youthure]

Yet another fascinating video

[@WatchMeSayStuff]

Excellent video to watch while high.

[@LordVoltRod2c]

I will consider it! Just fetched my hitter. This snake needs to unwind before he gets back to studies. 🐍 I bet this is going to be a real party. Nice n short how I like them! Few minutes later, Darn did something fall out of the hitter. Ah you little demon I think to the glowing cherry in the carpet and stomp it with my heal from the comfort of my own chair. I once even put a cherry out with my bum while having some drinks because it had fallen from the cig onto the couch, that's how much I care about my house. I got the term from when one of my friends said he once put the cherry out on his friend's sig with a bb gun. He told me the guy was really mad about it. Well I gave it try 5:39 was epic. Hey that's not a low-resolution box that's a uh an um ha ha ha building. Yeh, cool! And a darn cool one because um it's like uh very different? Ya, kinda like how in school we hated being told what to do because it was stupid. Whoa. Ya know what!? I figured out what that building is, it's a monument to freedom! It is what it is...

[@sciencerscientifico310]

There's all kinds of structures built of Legos, from prehistoric structures like Stonehenge all the way to the archologies, space elevators, etc that don't yet exist in the "real" world. There's even miniature cities and "COUNTRIES" built of Lego!

[@twelvethousandths1698]

So cool! Grammar in architecture (like almost everything else) is very interesting.

[@stewarthicks]

You might like jnl Durand. He was all about developing architectural grammar. Or a pattern language.

[@twelvethousandths1698]

@@stewarthicks thank you for the recommendation.

[@DZstudios.]

I have a LEGO CITY, I can confirm they are really good for inspiration

[@gabybordino6024]

I love it! Great video

[@stewarthicks]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ixionwayne7153]

I'm gonna make a 2x2x2 cube, and call it my lo-res house.

[@EmyrDerfel]

Make it 3 * 3 * z so architects know you're an architect.

[@lostdream8274]

Legos are also really great to quickly try out different compositions and layouts with simple volumes where each component is assigned a certain number of studs. I did a variant study like this about a year ago for a semester project. And while it does not have the level of detail you may want to have in the end it's still great for brainstorming

[@NicolaasBurgers]

The plural of LEGO is ... LEGO.

[@sam.t]

Came here to post this. So irritating hearing "Legos" so many times in this video.

[@SocieteRoyale]

think it's a weird US thing how they can't pronounce it properly

[@ArkMaDuke]

I wish I played LEGO as a kid too, but I WAS HERE tho

[@gaborbaksa4690]

I found the grammar metaphor interesting. We, Hungarians are very proud of our language's complexity, but as our language is getting more and more simpler, our buildings following the trend and also became unimaginative and cheaper. I'm afraid nobody can imagine and design a building, like the Hungarian parliament today and even less are brave enough to try to build one.

[@stydras3380]

I fucking love my legos and hell, can't even count the number of hours spent in minecraft.

[@caseyahlbrandt-rains103]

I'm more of a Duplo guy

[@donid2734]

Go blue!

[@albertbatfinder5240]

I can forgive a kid from the suburbs, but how can you have actually worked with representatives from the Lego company and STILL call them “Legos”?

[@EmyrDerfel]

'Murica.

[@lorrainefitzmaurice6386]

omg, I am so excited you are a camerata fan.

[@freerkderuiter8822]

I was raised on these Danish building blocks.

[@joannagrant87]

Jeff Kipnis' favorite film

[@stewarthicks]

Really!?!

[@joannagrant87]

@@stewarthicks Ask him!

[@Pentrilar]

Am I the only one that shied away from the pricy plastic blocks in favor of the cheaper cardstock and it's vast possibilities and detail? I mean you really need to distort interior spaces to accomplish them with Legos.

[@EmyrDerfel]

Cardstock isn't fungible like a Lego brick, so with a finite stock of card, each experiment reduces the stock, with used pieces of card only being reusable in ever smaller components as each piece is divided by creases or cuts. A Lego model can return to individual bricks almost infinitely.

[@user-vg7zv5us5r]

7:00 This is only a structuralist approach to language

[@airingcupboard]

Now I thought Lego was already plural. As in, Can I have some Lego please? Sports. Sport. Everyone in the UK is screaming inside watching this.

[@stewarthicks]

Yep I suck.

[@thesparks00]

what what 😭

[@EmyrDerfel]

Lego is an adjective, as in "Lego brick", or it's a volume noun, as in "some Lego", where the "bricks" is implied.

[@ddegn]

Some of us in the USA are also screaming inside (and outside) as we (I) watched this.

[@Studious_Studios]

Lego lead me to this channel.

[@ovh992]

I think modern architecture is based more on cost than anything else. When a king is not financing the school, then out go the superfluous details. When dictators come to power, busy details in military uniforms, buildings, graphic arts come back. When democracy takes hold, new buildings styles are bland.

[@thesparks00]

I had cheap blocks as a kid, it worked the same way, just broke easily 😆 I want a Legooooooo

[@aestherielle1524]

Can you do architecture with Minecraft?

[@girishgholap90]

As kid I played with DIY Engineering kit and built my own race car 😎

[@Jfreek5050]

Lego = IRL Minecraft Creation Mode

[@KoboldLich]

Minecraft next?

[@charpnatl]

Now I want legos! LOL!

[@pmsteamrailroading]

You used the word knolling!

[@keithrichardhallam]

Late to this video, but perhaps worth mentioning Lego's little architectural sibling - Modulex: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmiyXpqCaLytic0

[@gordysun]

I love Steve Hick's Channel.... but why is he saying legos? Don't hate me people - I'm not a troll. I have love lego and I even had that very same hospital set when I was a kid - still have actually. Maybe I'm wrong here and that the plural of lego is legos, but it just sounds so wrong, maybe it's an American thing. I've never heard anyone say legos (with an s before). Love the content and I love all his posts. If the plural of lego is legos, I stand corrected - I've been saying lego all my life... doh! ps my son now plays with lego too and wants to be an architect like his dad, so proud, he gets the modular elements and the overlapping of joints like real bricks and the proportions and repetiion.

[@stewarthicks]

It’s Lego, people where I’m from tend to put ‘s’ on things. I’m wrong.

[@gordysun]

@@stewarthicks I cant believe you actually replied. I'm a little star-struck, as well as embarrassed for nitpicking about such a nonissue when I actually love your channel. The "brick are smart" episode with your friend Will is probably my favourite. The deadpan humour was so brilliantly played - great fun as well as educational. Keep up the good work and thanks for the reply - it made my day. I was waiting for a lot of hate from the other people on here, but thankfully, they're all very nice people. All the best, Gordon (from Ireland)

[@stewarthicks]

Haha! It's ok, I'm always up for learning and discussing. Hope you are well!

[@LordVoltRod2c]

@@stewarthicks Nope, not in the USA. I love detail but this argument is just too much. The S also works best in front of a certain word when mad at people too!!! 🤣

[@archivushka]

Kinda off-topic. Shipping container buildings aren't suitable for homes or living spaces. It's cheaper to recycle it into something usefuly than try and make something that it wasn't designed for

[@EmyrDerfel]

Shipping containers are strong, rigid, durable and weather proof. You don't need extensive foundations, just attachment points for the four corners. You can add doors and windows without dropping the roof on your head since primary structural components are the edge elements, with the faces resisting racking, keeping the corners vertical. If the standard heights and fixed width unit are a little too small, you can insulate externally instead of internally, so the steel becomes part of the thermal mass for the space.

[@archivushka]

@@EmyrDerfel that's only the little part of the engineering orchestra that makes a suitable place for human being. Here's some branches: • making everything internally: everything other than frame and floor is non-structural, these metal thing walls are only good at keeping weather away, and making piping and windows makes them less structural. And of course less space. • making everything externally: basically you only need a metal frame, and well, metal frame houses are a thing, you have to basically rework the 90% of the shipping container, which isn't cheaper than making a normal metal frame house. And you somewhat lose the stackability. Although shipping containers are meant for shipping, it's kinda expensive to ship a shipping container to a place of building than materials, (unless you're near the port/railway) It's better to use it as a shipping container or recycle then try and make a home out of it.

[@K2161003k]

I studies very much. Please attach Japanese translation.

[@LordVoltRod2c]

I stopped playing with them in my early 20's because the neighbor kids quit playing with them at 13 years old. Me and the neighbor kids used to sit on the porch and play Legos. Then one day I asked one of the kids want to play Legos. He grumbled out "I am 13 I don't play with Legos anymore". Well, I thought I am 20 years old so your better at growing up than me! I felt silly and threw them out and got into studying construction, designing complex structures on the computer, and studying plumbing and electrical.

[@skymotel2]

I can't watch this video... The plural of Lego is... LEGO.... Never EVER legos. You will never see or hear the word LEGOS in any Lego promotional material cause its wrong... and the only people that say legos are Americans. You just say it too many times... Makes me want to break my computer... Such a shame cos I love Lego and all your other videos have been so good.

[@trueKorvus]

^ this. It hurts my brain.

[@god1425]

I literally had to stop watching because of your use of the word "legos". As someone who cares for proper terminology and popularisation of technical knowledge and beautification of communal spaces it's kind of sad to see you refer to all Lego pieces as "Legos". That would be like reffering to any building materials (including varried materials such as: rebar; I-beams, bricks, nuts and bolts, etc) as "Bechtels" because thats the biggest company.