A Virtual Landscape-Architecture Camp Introduces Girls to Careers They Didn’t Even Know Existed

When Jonathon Geels holds up a glass or travel mug in front of his webcam and tells students to pretend that it’s a building, they can pretty easily visualize where to put the windows and doors. Everyone seems to know that architecture is the product of human design, he says. But it’s less obvious that the landscape is designed, too — that it’s not just the negative space between objects, but the field that connects them. He tells students to imagine the building is a hospital. What if you couldn’t figure out how to find the emergency room in a crisis?