Awareness for architecture and design is not innate – it needs to be acquired. As the state school contract in art education has hardly been fulfilled in recent years, the early architectural education is often neglected all the more.

In this field, too, AIT-ArchitekturSalons break new ground. On August 8, 2009, the first children’s party took place in Hamburg – for the time being only for the off-springs of architects and interior designers. Under the direction of an art educationalist the children should first of all enjoy themselves – but they should also be introduced to fundamental design issues. In the future, AIT will offer this concept of early architectural education at all schools to all children, who have no relation to architecture in their family – as is the Kleihues Family. Our photograph shows young Jan Kleihues, for whom the early design education has obviously been fruitful.