ADAM REED TUCKER
ARCHITECT OF THE SMALLEST
    STRUCTURES IMAGINABLE
Architectural Artist Adam Reed Tucker has made a lucrative career from the silliest building materials available. Lego blocks. As a trained architect, Tucker chose to work in a medium that expressed inherent engineering values while taking away some of the imposing nature of large scale architecture. The result is both fun and an unusual artistic expression of the architect's trade.
Working on a small scale allows an architect to both design and build with a grandness of vision. Tucker's work has the playful characteristics of the Lego blocks it's made from but also makes a larger impact. He works small but dreams big. The grouping of his structures constitutes an entire skyline and herein lies the magic of his work. Tucker has taken architecture into his hands and constructs cityscapes that are both tiny and hugely instructive. Standing back from the works one is taken with the visual impact of a made up world that references reality so clearly as to be informative of full size buildings. To be able to take in the details of what constitutes the largest architectural frame of reference and look at it miniaturized allows viewers to see architecture in an entirely new light.

Lego has immortalized Tucker's work with a series of architecture sets that allow one to construct everything from skyscrapers to FallingWater with their colorful playroom building blocks. True, the finished structures have the blockiness we expect of Lego and yet their appeal may be the closest to a universally pleasing form that architecture will ever attain.

Lego has a series of model kits available for a wide range of structures that could be fun for family, kids and adults in search of a hobby or too much time on their hands. ARCHITECTUREWORLD.TV has NO affiliation with Lego and took NO money for this article. We just think its cool.