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From this, he founded Brickstructures, Inc., and began to design and build models of famous landmarks. His work was noticed by the Lego Group, and together they formed a partnership to release some of his models as commercially available Lego sets under the Lego Architecture brand.
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LEGO Architecture is not the first LEGO product to have an architectural focus. In the early 1960s the LEGO Group launches the Scale Model line focused at opening wider-ranging perspectives for modern model building. The product was aimed at older children and adults interested in building.
Where, then, is home for LEGO® Architecture? Chicago, Illinois. It was here that architect Adam Reed Tucker began using LEGO bricks to recreate iconic Windy City landmarks. The LEGO Group saw his work, and together they drew up the blueprint for an exciting new collection of LEGO sets for adults.
Almost 50 years later, Adam Reed Tucker, an artist with a degree in architecture from Kansas State University, proposed to bring back this combination of architecture and play but in a different manner. Tucker’s earliest Lego Architecture models were for skyscrapers from his hometown Chicago, and that is how it all started.
Lego began in 1932 in the carpentry workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish furniture maker. During the great depression he began to make miniature versions of his products, which inspired him to produce toys. The company was named "Lego" in 1934, a contraction from the Danish phrase "leg godt", meaning "play well".
Over the last few years, the LEGO Group has been courting the older LEGO fan with themes like Architecture, which recreates real-world landmarks, buildings and cities in bricks. Since 2008, Architecture sets have offered accurate scale models of legendary landmarks.
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