Educating Architects: How Tomorrow's Practitioners Will Learn Today - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500343004 ISBN 13: 9780500343005

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

An anthology of essays by the world’s leading educators on how aspiring architects should be taught and trained

Many students come to architecture relatively late in their education, so it is in college where they come into contact with those who will influence their entire careers. Many top schools are run by leading global practitioners, who, some might argue, have more lasting influence as educators than as architects.

The wide range of pedagogical philosophies and practical lessons, set out here in specially commissioned essays, creates a fascinating picture of how our ideas and practices of architecture are formed, nurtured and ultimately built for the world to see.

Through both the professional and educational experience of the contributors, we discover many unexpected and unorthodox methods for teaching those who will build our world.

The book includes:

· Thirty-eight texts by the most influential architects and educators from the world’s top schools

· Intimate and practical insights into how and what young architects need to know and learn to build a better world

· A look into the future of our built world through the perspectives, priorities and principles of those teaching the next generation of architects

· Over 300 illustrations and contributions by some of the top names in architectural practice and education, the book is full of design ideas

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Paradoxical simultaneities: architectural education at the edge of the 21st century
Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich

Timing’s everything . . . or is it?
Sir Peter Cook, CRAB Studio

250 things an architect should know
Michael Sorkin, City College of New York

Alvin’s AA: a panorama
Peter L. Wilson, Bolles + Wilson

Architectural anti-realism: the AA school in 2013
Brett Steele, Architectural Association

A prime meridian
Nic Clear, University of Greenwich

Diagramming an architecture and landscape department
Mike Aling and Mark Garcia, University of Greenwich

BUILDING ARCHITECTURE LEARNING
Library and School of Architecture, Design and Construction, University of Greenwich
Heneghan Peng Architects

The architectural mixing desk of the surrealist city
Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich

Defining your own horizons
Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich

Convergence: architecture as integrated spatial design
Nic Clear, University of Greenwich

Design animated
Nic Clear, University of Greenwich

A user’s guide to the anthropocene: a short passage through a brief moment in time
Simon Herron, University of Greenwich

The salon of lost content (the refuge of misfits)
Simon Herron and Susanne Isa, University of Greenwich

Working the realities of landscape
Ed Wall, University of Greenwich

The digital generation
Bob Sheil, University College London

The imaginarium of urban futures
C. J. Lim, University College London

Audacious encounters
Nigel Coates

School of thought
Mark Morris, Cornell University
BUILDING ARCHITECTURE LEARNING
Milstein Hall, Cornell University
OMA
BLENDscapes: a new era of transdisciplinary exchange in architecture
Evan Douglis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Instigations: reimagining better futures
Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard Graduate School of Design

McCormick Tribune Campus Centre, Illinois Institute of Technology
OMA

Just about enough
Perry Kulper, University of Michigan

Some thoughts on pedagogy
Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reiser, RUR Architecture

The education of breathing
Mark Wigley, Columbia University

The art and science of design at the Cooper Union
Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union

Wot got left out
Ben Nicholson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

An experimental history, a history of the experiment: 1964–2013
Neil Denari, UCLA

Robotics in architecture
Greg Lynn, UCLA

What is SCI-Arc?
Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc

Pretentious and incoherent thoughts on architecture – right now
Hernan Diaz Alonso, SCI-Arc

Building the Berlage: notes on a continuing educational project
Salomon Frausto, The Berlage

Three-year relationships
Klaus Bollinger and Reiner Zettl, University of Applied Arts Vienna

The question of questioning
Hani Rashid, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Hadid masterclass: a laboratory of design innovation
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Kings, Queens and Broadways: two projects for a new University of Applied Arts Vienna
Wolfgang Tschapeller

Towards new aesthetics and new culture
Kongjian Yu, Peking University

Yesterday, today and tomorrow: implications of architectural education at Tsinghua
Li Xiaodong, Tsinghua University

Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art and Design
Will Alsop, ALL Design

Making a difference: embedding academic research in practice
Mark Burry, RMIT University

Biographies
Notes
Directory
Index
Picture credits

About this title

Review

Recommended.

Neil Spiller and Nic Clear pour their enthusiasm for a type of education . . . into the pedagogy of their new department. . . . Tucked into the book are outliers who have smart things to say about contemporary architectural education.

About the Author

Neil Spiller is Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London. He is the author of Visionary Architecture and Digital Architecture Now, both published by Thames & Hudson. His architectural design work and research has been widely published and exhibited worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500343004
• ISBN 13: 9780500343005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Spiller Neil