2022 Partnership with the
Chicago Architecture Center
GIRLS BUILD! HULL-HOUSE SUMMER CAMP
How do we design neighborhoods city residents need, want, and deserve? Find out in the Chicago Architecture Center’s (CAC) week-long summer camp designed for girls and female-identifying students, ages 11-14. In partnership with Jane Addams Hull-House Museum—the home of feminist, suffragist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and neighborhood builder Jane Addams—students will dive into CAC’s graphic novel, No Small Plans, as we meet trailblazing women from the past and present who helped shape our city. The week will include visits to historic immigrant neighborhoods, interviews with community leaders, and more.
About Girls Build!
Girls Build! is a unique experiential program designed to engage girls ages 11-14. Participants will receive hands-on learning and skill-based practice with architecture, as well as learning from women who are leading the way in STEAM Fields. Girls Build! began January 2016. The program was conceived to provide girls who are interested in architecture with a platform to both explore concepts and practice hard skills related to STEAM, ACE and other similar fields. Over the years, the program has grown into a robust, inclusive experience that encourages girls to embrace being leaders and critical thinkers.
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) was founded in 1966 as the Chicago Architecture Foundation to save the historic Glessner House. Since then, the CAC has grown to become one of the largest cultural organizations in Chicago. For more than 50 years, the CAC has shared the stories of Chicago architecture with millions of Chicagoans and visitors. The CAC is the leading organization devoted to celebrating and promoting Chicago as a center of architectural innovation. As Chicago’s forum for the exchange of ideas on urban design, the CAC inspires people to participate in the building of vibrant communities and to demand the highest standard in urban design. The CAC awakens young people to achieve their potential through the discovery of architecture, engineering and design.
