scholarly journals The death of aesthetics in architectural education? Possibilities for contemporary pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-570
Author(s):  
Renata Jadrešin-Milić ◽  
Catherine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Design And Practice ◽  
Aesthetic Sensibility

The importance of aesthetics within architecture has a long history. Although evidence suggests that the term was not brought into architectural writing until 17351 , the place of aesthetics can be identified across architectural theory and philosophy since the time of Vitruvius. Developing an aesthetic sensibility was seen as crucial for an architect and the study of architecture was understood through the three Vitruvian lenses (utlitas, firmitas, venustas) one of which, venustas, is directly associated with aesthetics. This paper responds to the current and ongoing discussions between architects, architectural educators and architectural students on the role of aesthetics in architectural education and professional practice today. It was initially inspired by questions raised at the 2017 and 2018 annual conferences of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH 2017 and 2018) about the role of architectural history in architectural design and practice today, and in line with this, questions about place of aesthetics in architectural education. This paper considers the place of aesthetics in architectural education and provides a detailed overview of the key pedagogical interventions undertaken in one architectural studies programme which might serve as a guide for educators interested in maintaining the place of aesthetics in contemporary architectural education. It suggests that aesthetics can continue to play a key role in the architectural curriculum whilst a focus on design problem-solving and achieving the contemporary educational requirements of accreditation is maintained.

scholarly journals Ways of Choosing

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Sarah O'Dwyer ◽  
Julie Gwilliam
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
School Design ◽  
Performance Excellence ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Direct Design ◽  
Design Culture ◽  
Professional Attributes ◽  
Social Environmental

Architectural education must produce graduates which have demonstrated standards of knowledge, skill and competence for practice as an architect, who possess particular professional attributes and who are also aware of their civic responsibilities. As such, graduates are taught to question and direct design conditions from particular design paradigms and stances. In the context of two dichotomous design culture stances — Architectural Design Excellence (ADE) which prioritises aesthetic architectural ideals and space-making, and Sustainable Performance Excellence (SPE) which has technical prowess and the built environment response to social, environmental and economic sustainability as its focus — this paper studies the role of school design culture in Irish Schools of Architecture in providing the focus on what constitutes architectural design excellence, and what shapes the framework in which these ideas sit.

Thinking manifesto on basic design studios in architectural education

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Hakan Saglam
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Final Project ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Design ◽  
Education Delivery

Design education delivery is reconsidered every semester from the first basic design course through to the final project class, and while there are diverse approaches to architectural theory worldwide, the problem of teaching architectural design is a continual question to educators, especially for design educators. Over different periods of time, very different approaches to design education have been pursued. These differing theories form the basis for architectural design education. Throughout this process, the history of design education has been shaped and it is important to be able to use the accumulation of knowledge from different fields within the context of ‘architectural education’. When we consider the transformation of design education historically and the differing approaches today, such as the effects of changing theories, scientific-culturalsub-structures, transformed super structures and the ever-changing theories on architectural education, the design studio educators should incorporate the benefits of this diverse learned knowledge into the design studio education.Keywords: Basic design, architectural education, design studios.

Reasoning by Visual Analogy in Design Problem-Solving: The Role of Guidance

10.1068/b2565 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hernan P Casakin ◽  
Gabriela Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Design Domain ◽  
Problem Solving Strategy ◽  
Problem Solvers ◽  
Solving Strategy ◽  
Visual Analogy

The use of analogy, including visual analogy, is a powerful problem-solving strategy that can help explain new problems in terms of familiar ones. There is evidence that problem-solvers have difficulty in making spontaneous use of this strategy, despite its proven effectiveness. However, guidance to use it greatly increases accessibility to analogy in problem-solving. In the design domain, evidence of the use of analogy has hitherto been mostly anecdotal. Our goal in this paper is to show through empirical data that analogy can be effective in facilitating design problem-solving, especially when explicit instructions for its use are given.

scholarly journals Dirty Linen, Liminal Spaces, and Later Life: Meanings of Laundry in Care Home Design and Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Buse ◽  
Julia Twigg ◽  
Sarah Nettleton ◽  
Daryl Martin
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Dirty Linen ◽  
Design And Practice

This article explores the design and practice of laundries and laundry work in care home settings. This is an often-overlooked aspect of the care environment, yet one that shapes lived experiences and meanings of care. It draws on ethnographic and qualitative data from two UK-based Economic and Social Research Council–funded studies: Buildings in the Making, a study of architects designing care homes for later life, and Dementia and Dress, a project exploring the role of clothing in dementia care. Drawing together these studies, the article explores the temporality and spatiality of laundry work, contrasting designers’ conceptions of laundry in terms of flows, movement, and efficiency with the lived bodily reality of laundry work, governed by the messiness of care and ‘body time’. The article examines how laundry is embedded within the meanings and imaginaries of the care home as a ‘home’ or ‘hotel’, and exposes the limitations of these imaginaries. We explore the significance of laundry work for supporting identity, as part of wider assemblages of care. The article concludes by drawing out implications for architectural design and sociological conceptions of care.

scholarly journals Metaphors as Discourse Interaction Devices in Architectural Design

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Hernan Casakin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Protocol Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Front Edge ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
Reasoning Mechanism ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Insight Into

Metaphor is a fundamental heuristic supporting cognitive and communicative requirements in design problem solving. This reasoning mechanism helps structure how architects reason about problems, and how they approach design situations from novel perspectives. This paper investigated empirically the use of metaphors during the conceptual front edge design, known as the most creative stage of the process. Figurative phenomena were analyzed in their original context of occurrence. Emerging metaphorical expressions generated during communication interactions maintained by sixty architects were identified and examined based on protocol analysis approach. Metaphors were further categorized according to main experiential domains at different levels of detail, as well as in terms of image and conceptual descriptions. The study contributed to gain a deeper insight into the rhetorical potential of metaphor during design problem solving, and to strengthen its centrality in architecture.

Rustic figuration

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-368
Author(s):  
Ulrika Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Material Concept

The entwined relationships between the physical and the computational continue to produce sensibilities where our understanding of the division between them is becoming blurred. The prolog to Rustic Figurations identifies a growing interest in disciplinary questions on the role of history and the history of digital tools and techniques of representation to support and understand the cultural context of architecture. The second part of the text tries to describe, define and situate rustic figuration as an aesthetic and material concept in architecture that has developed through the architectural design research of the practices servo and Brrum, in parallel with research into the history of rustication.The notion of rustic figuration is imbued with architectural qualities that oscillate between the legibility of form and geometry and the disappearance of that legibility. Aspects of legibility are discussed in relation to related discourses in architectural history, as well as in the context of a few contemporary practices and projects that engage both computational and analogue techniques for design, communication and fabrication. The qualities of rustic figuration in the projects are neither bound by the unique properties of the building materials, nor by the computational information but happen in the translations between digital information and material manifestation or vice versa.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION: A CASE STUDY AT UNIVERSITY OF BALIKESIR IN TURKEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-333
Author(s):  
Yeliz TÜLÜBAŞ GÖKUÇ
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
City And Regional Planning ◽  
Building Life Cycle ◽  
The University

Today, the concept of sustainability is a very popular topic in the construction sector as in all areas of the industry. When the environmental impacts of the building life cycle are considered, the importance of this concept for this sector is seen more clearly. As in every education field, architectural education is also shaped according to the needs of the age. The differences between 2000s and today can be noticed when looking at the field of architecture that shifts in line with the needs of the age. Thus, necessary changes should be made in some disciplines such as architecture, interior architecture, civil engineering, city and regional planning and landscape architecture under the subject of sustainability. Architecture, which shapes the living spaces, has an enormous responsibility along with some other disciplines during the evolution of the occupational environmental awareness. It should be ensured with the university education that the undergraduate architecture students develop a mentality that pays attention to the concepts of ecology and sustainability, and enables skills to utilize renewable energy sources. This study aims to determine the awareness of students on sustainability. The data for this research is collected by conducting a survey at the Department of Architecture at the University of Balıkesir, and covers the senior students in the spring semester of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years. This study emphasizes the concept of sustainability, and aims to determine how the architect candidates who will be implementers in the future interact with the concept of sustainability during their higher education. One of the results of the study shows that students do not have much knowledge about sustainable architecture, but they tend to take related courses. Another result of the study is that students should be directed to projects that emphasize sustainability in architectural design courses.

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