Creative architecture

1 - Guggenheim museum

a - Trouver des équivalents en anglais dans le texte

- des oeuvres d'art modernes et contemporaines

- des panneaux réfléchissants

- les formes inhabituelles

- n'écrase pas son environnement traditionnel

- mettre Bilbao sur la carte

b - Using quotations from the text, show in what sense Gehry's work is :

- beautiful like a gigantic sculpture

- useful as public's building

- effective as a symbol of a city and a region

c - Go on the website of the Guggenheim Museum and collect informations to organize a visit ( location, hours and admission, ticket sales, guided tours, exhibitions, collections). minimum 100 words

2 - Norman Foster : the Global architect

Match the following statements with the ten points.

Explain why it must be great to be a trainee with Foster+Partners

a - Forster's firm takes care of everything

b - Foster and Partners is an international firm

c - Forster believes that architecture can help people live better

d - Forster's building are adapted to the climate of the countries where they are built

e - A Forster's building will not clash with the traditional buildings around

f - Forster's team consult local people when they design a building

g - Forsters and partners have a lot of experience

Final task

You are an english teacher and you want your students to discover an amazing architecture site such as a museum.

Find a museum in an english spoken country. This building must have an interesting architecture.

You have to make some researches about the plane, the places where you you would sleep, eat and some other activities you could do there.

Plan the budget and the schedule.

Present the project to your students to motivate them.

You have to speak at least 2 minutes.

Dates : from the 2nd of april to the 8th of april

32 students and 4 adults.