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04. FUTURE ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
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his research offers a thorough examination of the online exhibition organized by Bahçeşehir University, highlighting its methodology and development within the framework of architecture and design department. The exhibitios were a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic's problems and marks a major move away from conventional physical exhibits and toward virtual formats. This paper's main goal is to investigate how the institution used digital technology to showcase student work in an immersive, interactive...
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The objective of this endeavor is to develop, evaluate, and substantiate an integrative design methodology grounded in Āina, which is tailored to address the needs of indigenous populations in Hawai'i. This methodology is operationalized through a triad of courses at Chaminade University of Honolulu. These courses are designed to facilitate a collaborative learning environment that unites students, community stakeholders, and academics through hands-on design studios, mandatory thematic courses, and...
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Facilitating deep, sustainable, and long-term learning is not a trivial matter. It is a core challenge in the educational processes aiming at sculpting the profiles of future designers with ability to take part in tackling the pluriverse crisis of climate, biological and social aspects we are facing as a collective. In this context, the paper aims to provide a rich situational insight into peer learning dynamics of a problem-based learning (PBL) architectural education in Aalborg at the Department of...
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Writing is a spatial act - exploring different writing modes may unveil new modes of architectural thinking. When contextualised within the architectural framework, writing takes on a transformative role, capable of opening up possibilities for non-visual relationships and interconnected networks, thereby inviting critical inquiry and discourse. In architectural schools, where the design studio is the central focus, this area usually remains less explored, particularly in undergraduate programmes. However,...
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Digital simulation tools for environmental performance analysis are widely employed in architectural practices around the world. For this reason, teaching students how to use those tools is increasingly becoming an important part of the architect’s education and future employability. However, in architectural design, digital tools, providing fixed numerical outputs, have the potential to lead to design fixations, limiting the students’ capacity for innovative thinking by restricting their design actions....
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How can the design of atmospheres be taught? How can it avoid the vagueness and superficiality at times associated with this concept? This paper describes the pedagogical approach of an architect for whom atmosphere is a central concern: Peter Zumthor. While his architecture is well known, little has been written about his teaching at the Academy of Architecture – Università della Svizzera italiana (USI-ARC) between 1996 and 2007. The paper analyzes the documents of Zumthor’s teaching and highlights three...
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Extended Realities or XR has become an increased field of interest over the last decade. It is more accessible than ever, becoming an everyday component found in our homes, businesses and even our education. While there is still a lot of skepticism around the value of this technology, curiosity by many has allowed for different disciplines to embrace it. Its novelty has instigated new questions and spawned new methods of engagement. This paper discusses the use of this technology and documents the...
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Higher education's student population is growing more diverse, incorporating neurodivergent individuals such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) students. Factors contributing to this trend include heightened awareness of learning differences, improved diagnostic processes for ASD, implementing enhanced individualized learning plans, and adopting more effective special education practices. Architectural education is no exception. The creative and collaborative framework fostered in architectural education,...
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This paper explores interdisciplinary and inclusive methodologies in architectural education, addressing contemporary socio-technical challenges. It highlights the role of collaborative frameworks in fostering dynamic learning environments and innovative pedagogical strategies. By integrating Industry 5.0 methodologies and digital mapping, we examine their impact on design processes, material innovation, and urban discourse. Through co-production and computational design techniques, we showcase the...
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There is a widespread appeal to foster the adoption of building performance simulation (BPS) tools in the education of aspiring architects with the goal of commonplace integration in architectural practices worldwide. This adoption enhances an architect's working methodology through new forms of observational testing, which demonstrate how architectural boundaries and environmental states interact. Given the opportunities provided, students should exercise careful consideration when incorporating BPS tools...
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Digital tools have become a part of most architectural education worldwide. Today, digital tools include much more than just drawing and modeling software. Every aspect of architectural design and development is digitized, and the component and construction industries are increasingly implementing digitization and automation. As such, digital knowledge and literacy in and around the architectural process are vast and constantly changing. While architectural education can include...
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This paper discusses the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the conceptual phases of the design of a public space. It raises the question of how AI tools can enhance the design process and how the integration of AI tools in a design process may affect the interactions between architects and clients. The investigation uses a collaborative project between academia and a major art institution to transform a vehicular street into a pedestrian event space...
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Understanding building energy simulation poses a significant challenge due to the intricate nature of energy modeling principles, particularly among secondary school students who form the groundwork for addressing climate change. Raising awareness about energy consumption and wastage among students at an early educational stage holds paramount importance for the future environmental well-being. This stems from the fact that individuals commonly encounter difficulty in concretely grasping the extent of...
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The identification of sustainable design with the use of standards and commercially available components for energy efficiency has led architecture students to suddenly become more concerned and thirstier for existing know-how, rather than developing the ability to observe and generate their own solutions. Sustainability in architectural education cannot be limited to making students aware of environmental challenges and ready-made solutions, neither into limiting environmental impact on a purely numerical...
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Although Le Corbusier and Peter Zumthor belong to different generations and their work addresses different issues, both establish connections with the world of the arts and share a concern for the space experience. Given today’s dominance of psychological awareness, research on spatial experience is pertinent for contemporary architectural practice.
This paper will analyze the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier (1955) and the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel by Peter Zumthor (2007). The aim is to...
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This study explores possibilities for the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) image generators into architectural education, examining the intersection of traditional design processes and emerging AI technologies. While practitioners increasingly adopt AI in architectural practice, its incorporation in educational settings remains relatively unexplored. The research addresses the question of how to offer students the opportunity to use AI image generators while maintaining essential traditional...
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As healthcare design is gradually becoming a specialized area within architecture, many schools in the USA are proposing and implementing different curricular models. A comparison of these indicates non-agreement in the essential needs of these graduates. Additionally, the two professional credentialling agencies for healthcare designers also have dissimilar criteria. The questions thus are: what knowledge and skills do graduates interested in healthcare design need, what does the profession expect, and...
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As we struggle with the demands of rapidly growing cities, the needs of our youngest citizens are being ignored. Due to how space is allocated in cities today, playground space has decreased. The loss of playground space denies children their right to play freely. This paper argues for a reconceptualisation of play space and for cross-disciplinary collaboration to get us there. Documentation of playgrounds from Europe and the US was used to outline the changes in playground design since the start of the...
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This investigation reviews an unexpected outcome arising from using a tool for algorithmic design for a human fabrication project. The Space Groups are a mathematical system for describing repetitive 3d Unit Geometries commonly used in crystallography. Horta is a Grasshopper library which adapts these methods to define elements within a Unit Cell and output terse instruction sets for distributing these across a lattice to create complex honeycombs. Originally intended for automated assembly in the...
