1st Edition
Radical Pedagogies Architectural Education and the British Tradition
The anticipated reduction in the duration of architecture education in the UK and across Europe has encouraged a sense of collective openness towards exploring other models of professional education delivery. There’s never been a better time to be thoughtfully innovative and take the initiative.
This book provides a much needed debate about the future of architectural education, placing it within its unique historic tradition and raising fundamental questions such as who should be teaching architecture? Where should they be situated and should it be viewed as an interdisciplinary, rather than silo-based subject?
Featuring voices as varied as digital strategists, students and client managers, Radical Pedagogies consolidates academic and well as practice-based evidence into a set of actionable insights, aimed at empowering schools, educators, and students alike.
Part 1: The Critique: A Historical Analysis of Architectural Education
1. When the Earth Moves
Alan Powers
2. A Place of Resistance
Mel Dodd
3. Academy of Resistance: Towards a Critical Education in Architecture
Tim Ivison
4. 'You Will See Pictures of What is Bad and What is Good': Public Legislation, Education and Agency in Post-War Built Environment Decision-Making
Daisy Froud
5. Architecture From the Dogs
Ruth Morrow
Part 2: Limitations of the Current System
6. Factories or Malls
Jack Self
7. Lost Generation: Ill Manors
Michael Chadwick
8. Architectural Practice: Education as a Testing Ground for Architectural Practice
Hayley Chivers
9. A Construction Conversation
Matt Gaskin and Devon Telberg
10. Is There Something Missing?
Tatjana Schneider
11. The Suppression of the Educational Project in Architecture
Kevin Rhowbotham
12. Conversations with Clients
Chris Brown
13. Starchitecture School
John Assael
Part 3: New Forms of Resistance
14. One London School
Bob Sheil
15. Conversing with Friere
Dr James Benedict Brown
16. School Dinners
Holly Porter and Jack Pringle
17. An Eclectic Pedagogy
Cany Ash
18. Critical Incisions
Ivana Wingham
19. The Critical Chasm
Lionel Real De Azua, Ciaran O’Brien and Lucas Tizard
20. Dark Coding
Alex Barclay
Part 3: Resistance in Action
21. Store School: Learning from Uncertainties
Nina Shen-Poblete
22. Learning from Learning from Kilburn
Tom Keeley
23. The London School of Architecture
Will Hunter
24. The AA Night School: Inside Out
Sam Jacob
Biography
Harriet Harriss is a chartered architect and a Principal Lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, and the founding director of ‘Live Lab’: a university-situated incubator for architecture business start-ups committed to social innovation. Harriet’s teaching and research publications explore how architects can enable people to live better lives and whether the public or ‘end users’ should be given a more active role in shaping the spaces and communities in which they live and work.
Daisy Froud is Founder and Head of Participation of AOC Architecture, Daisy specialises in structuring communication and learning between architects and non-professionals in the fields of design, planning and urban renewal.
