Our cultural history is reflected through its architecture. Immigrants with various styles and techniques for construction settled and established the city of Houston. African Americans, Mexicans, Chinese, Greeks, German, and French all came together to create a gigantic human mosaic, each group adding there own flavor and envisioning hope for a better future. Houston architecture illustrates our origins as a diverse city. In this unit we will look at various areas of Houston and note the cultural contributions made to each area through architecture. The unit will be broken up into three core subject areas, which are language arts, math, and social studies. Every lesson will consist of an introductory story or poem. Each selection will expose children to various aspects of architecture such as building for shelter, constructing for power and presence, and designing for purpose. Constructing and building their own communities will allow for the children to gain knowledge in geometry hence fore making it easier for them to learn about three dimensional shapes and symmetry. There will be no problem incorporating social studies into the unit because every structure in Houston has some type of cultural reference, whether it is through architectural detail, the original builder of the structure, or its location in a community.