Stephen W. Schwartz, AlA, established and headed the firm SWS Architects for 53 years, until his recent retirement. About 25 years ago he was asked to explain to a class of second-grade students how a city is designed. Loaded up with AIA New Jersey’s collection of #LEGO building blocks from the 1993 AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C., he set out to give the students a lesson in zoning by building a city the size of their classroom.

 

Ten years later, the Montclair Historical Society was looking to create a family program on the rich architectural history of #Montclair. What developed was a dynamic program method that Schwartz has designed for historic societies in #NewJersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.