Through the summer internship program, the BSA, in collaboration with the Boston Private Industry Council, is enhancing its diversity and equity goals by giving Boston-area high school students not only an opportunity to think about a career in architecture but also an avenue toward understanding the profession.

During the 2017-2018 school year, when the BSA first participated in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) kindergarten construction unit, no one envisioned that a pandemic would hit and transform learning—both during and after the epidemic. Six years later, the BSA's early childhood architecture curriculum has not only expanded across Boston, but also serves as a model for young children to learn collaboratively and to reimagine the world around them.

Whether with Legos or Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets or basic building blocks, every child at some point dreams of building big. Continuing a tradition lasting more than a quarter century, the BSA brought those dreams to life this past weekend. The BSA hosted the 31st annual KidsBuild!, pairing the imagination of local children with the guidance of working architects, and crafting the considerations of real-life construction into lessons fit for young minds. Together, the children and their caregivers—upwards of 750 participants—designed and built a model city from the ground up.

Working 9-5 in the dog days of summer can inspire longing for high school summer vacation. For the group of designers that gathered at BSA Space this month, however, it’s easy to remember it. After all, they just spent theirs working at some of the top architecture firms in Boston.

A survey by the Boston Business Journal found that the BSA ranked 10th on the list of business advocacy organizations in Massachusetts. The list includes Massachusetts-headquartered organizations.

Architecture is everywhere, and you can find Boston Society for Architecture members almost anywhere, too, even in the classroom. They were there this past spring, and no, they weren't lost. They belonged to a team of volunteers who visited classes in Boston and Cambridge to encourage young children to think more expansively about their neighborhoods and communities.

On typical days, 290 Congress Street is fairly quiet. But on the weekend of April 9 this year, the normally-serene lobby of the building was overrun with noise and covered with piles of recycled materials as it transformed into the site of multiple colorful construction projects.

Who are the authors of our urban spaces? How does the culture of private property shape the spatial design and aesthetic attributes of cities? John Wagner, studio leader for It Takes a Village, one section in the Imaginations of Home exhibition, reflects on the experience.