GENEVA - Richard Parry-Jones likes to compare the building blocks of Ford Motor Co. vehicles to the pieces in a set of Lego Technic, the version of Lego building toys used to make mechanical models.

Owen Napierkowski, 7, makes building a Lego set look simple — even a 3,955-piece “Home Alone” house. He has been building Lego sets most of his life. His parents, Lynda and Dan Napierkowski of New ...

In the summer of 2009, more than 4,000 volunteers flocked to Dorking, England, to help former Top Gear cohost James May realize his childhood dream of building a real house out of Lego bricks. Over ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Meet a UChicagoan,’ a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. Read about the others here. In Dave Kaleta’s home ...