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Lego Architecture is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group that aspires to commemorate the history and future of architecture through the use of Lego bricks. This product involves Lego sets that are designed by Adam Reed Tucker, an‘Architectural Artist’. Each set contains the blocks needed to construct a model of a famous building and instructions on how to build it.

Adam Reed Tucker has an architecture degree from the Kansas State University and while studying there, he tried to find a way on how to combine his two passions in life: art and architecture. He was finally able to do this by using Lego blocks to build architectural models. From there, he established Brickstructures, Inc. and started designing and building Lego models of famous structures. His works were then discovered by the Lego Group and the two forged a collaboration to make some of his models available to the public. These Lego sets were released under the brand that came to be known as Lego Architecture.

Since then, six sets have been manufactured for the line under two categories: the Landmark Series and the Architect Series. Included in the Landmark Series are small-scale versions of the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center of Chicago, the Empire State Building of New York, and the Seattle Space Needle, while included the Architect Series are Lego representations of the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry and the Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. A new series is in the works and it will be known as the Discovery Series.

The Lego Architecture line has received favorable reviews by many critics. Although the scale of the models in Lego Architecture kits are small and the details are not that fine, it is still a great way to honor the world’s greatest architects and their designs.