Build Workshop with LEGO® Bricks

This 90-minute, family-friendly workshop is designed to be both fun and educational, with participants learning interesting facts about architecture and how it shapes the landscape around them. Participants will work together to create a sprawling miniature city skyline, showcasing the overlap between LEGO® products, play, and architecture. The workshop will also provide participants with amazing tips and tricks for building with LEGO bricks, and it is suitable for all skill levels. After the program, participants are encouraged to head upstairs and view VMHC’s signature VA250th exhibition, Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of a Nation. The workshop will be taught by Ben Edlavitch, a season 4 competitor on Fox’s LEGO Masters competition show. Edlavitch is a student at the University of Virginia studying community-focused architecture. His passion for the subject stems from a lifelong love of LEGO bricks and play. Edlavitch approaches architecture with the same playful logic he learned from building with LEGO bricks: that you can take anything apart and put it back together again in a way that makes it better. Edlavitch believes that creating a connection between imaginative play and architecture is essential and can help bring the profession into the present day. He feels that play allows people to explore ideas freely, without judgment, and can open opportunities for creativity and discovery.

Repeats December 20th.