How do you build childhood memories? Well, using Lego bricks, of course.

As adults, we may not like Lego bricks that much. Loose bricks left lying around on the floor are the recipients of much yelling – try stepping on one while walking barefoot and you’ll understand, and feel, the pain.

And yet, from our first rudimentary Lego house to the more adventurous robots, we all have precious memories of spending hours building things using Lego bricks.

Back then, the world was our inspiration – even though Lego sets come with instructions on what to build, we largely ignored them. After all, why stick to one plan when there are a thousand others to explore?

That is the line of thought that has inspired the latest Lego set – Architecture Studio. This set, which includes 1,210 white and translucent bricks in 73 varieties, isn’t accompanied by instructions. Rather, what it has is a 277-page guidebook that is filled with architectural concepts and building techniques.

And while other Lego sets have the side effect of getting the young ones interested in architectural concepts, here, that is the primary concern. In fact, so strong are this set’s architectural credentials that the guidebook includes endorsement and real world insights from prominent architecture studios around the world, including Safdie, Skidmore, REX and Sou Fujimoto.

Of course, kids will find it a bit difficult to understand complex concepts such as negative space and interior sections. However, don’t underestimate your children’s imagination – as the Architecture Studio guidebook rightly points out, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller all attended kindergarten in schools which had introduced building blocks into educational play.

Which means that, even though they might hurt, those bricks scattered on the floor could be the next architectural masterpiece.