The Oxford Conference : A Re-Evaluation of Education in Architecture

50 years after the 1st Oxford Conference on Architectural Education, the 2008 Conference brought together over 500 people from 42 countries to share best practice, discuss how, when, where and why we teach architecture now and in the future. The eleven conference Forums covered a range of topics including Buildings and the Environment; Sustaining Studio Education in a Climate of Change; Human Habitat and Social Responsibility; Refurbishment and Evidence Based Education; Research into Teaching Courses; Urban Design and Sustainable Cities; Schools and Professional Views; Materials and Renewable Energy; Virtual Building and Generative Design; Design Research Courses and Curricula. This volume brings you short essays from all Forums from speakers like Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts, Nina Maritz and Paul Oliver. There are ideas here that will appeal to all points of view but they are singular in that within them all is a clarion call for the need for new approaches to the way in which the design of buildings is taught in Schools of Architecture around the world. Title Page ......Page 2 Copyright......Page 5 Introduction......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 14 Contents......Page 16 Plenary Papers......Page 24 The unspoken assumption and its antidotes......Page 26 Do no harm: preparing the architecture profession for the 21[sup(st)[ century......Page 30 Reasserting the architect's position in pursuit of sustainability......Page 34 One world architecture......Page 40 Forum 1: Buildings and the Environment......Page 44 Teaching climate responsive design to beginning architecture students......Page 46 The influence of climatic design on Iranian symbolic form designing......Page 50 Apology for architecture......Page 56 Experimenting with climate as a learning tool for the "architecture and climate (A+C)" undergraduate studio at UTFSM......Page 60 Growth of the post-industrial city: densification and expansion -- two models for sustainability on the urban scale......Page 66 The Jerusalem Eco-Housing Project......Page 72 The Queensland Architectural Practice Academy: a new model in industry-focused education......Page 76 Architectural education for an "Age of Sustainability"......Page 82 Beauty of environmental architecture: finding ideas in representation......Page 86 Activism as both research and pedagogy: projects in support of greening the UW System......Page 90 Changing paradigms of technology: towards building a living environment......Page 94 The carbon neutral design project......Page 100 Counting carbon from buildings and cities: fundamentals and methodologies......Page 106 Towards sustainability: rethinking architectural education in India......Page 110 Forum 2: Sustaining Studio Education in a Climate of Changes......Page 116 Studio culture: learning from the American experience......Page 118 Accommodating diversity: the case for pedagogic evaluation......Page 122 Innovations in the studio: experiments distilling peer discussion and learning using diagrams......Page 128 The role of student self-regulation in design studios......Page 132 Integrating sustainability through imaginative studio assessment......Page 138 Coming and going: itinerant education and educational capital......Page 142 Constructing bodies: gesture use in the design studio......Page 148 Forum 3: Human Habitat and Social Responsibility......Page 154 Après la guerre (After the war): design without borders......Page 156 Learning from slums: a shift from 'designing for' to 'designing with' and some challenges in integrating the new professionalism into architectural education......Page 160 Amending the agenda: the anthropology of architecture......Page 166 Forum 4: Refurbishment and Evidence Based Education......Page 170 The case for real buildings with real budgets......Page 172 Refurbishment as a challenge for future architects......Page 176 Towards sustainable management of existing heritage......Page 180 Teaching architectural regeneration and development......Page 184 Building for the future: making the UK further education colleges sustainable......Page 188 Following Kahn in Texas......Page 194 Sustainable design versus energy performance......Page 200 Design learning from case studies......Page 206 A Bridge Too Far -- an ecological experience with students and their hands......Page 212 The Live Project......Page 218 Learning to build in 40 days......Page 224 Forum 5: Research into Teaching Courses......Page 228 Architectural engineering: collaborating to deliver energy-efficient buildings......Page 230 Teaching space syntax through reflective practice and practica......Page 234 Environment and the studio: integrating the quantitative and the qualitative......Page 238 Communicating sustainability in undergraduate architectural education......Page 242 European design education for sustainability......Page 248 Architectural design composition: understanding the American and European basis of form......Page 254 Forum 6: Urban Design and Sustainable Cities......Page 258 Urban design re-examined: urban vs. design......Page 260 The meaning and usefulness of the "feeling map" as a tool in urban design and architecture......Page 266 Forum 7: Schools and Professional Views......Page 270 Accrediting agencies: towards practical ethics of professional accreditation......Page 272 Pride and prejudice: illusions of consensus in architectural debate......Page 278 The future of design teams in a zero carbon world......Page 284 Architectural technology 50 years on: Oxford to Oxford, SAAT to CIAT......Page 290 The hand hits back......Page 296 Forum 8: Materials and Renewable Energy......Page 300 Integrated household solar system......Page 302 Hemp and lime in sustainable construction......Page 306 Improving the content of building material courses through sustainability......Page 310 Material libraries: promoting materiality and interdisciplinary collaboration......Page 314 Assessing buildings with green credentials......Page 320 New materials and design strategies for sustainable buildings......Page 324 Forum 9: Virtual Building and Generative Design......Page 328 Integrating energy simulation applications and building information modelling in the design studio......Page 330 Real-time simultaneous collaboration in the BIM repository......Page 334 Biomimetic architecture in a climate of change......Page 338 Botany for designers: a generative design model for the classroom......Page 344 Digital construction in architectural teaching......Page 348 Construction documents in a digital future......Page 352 Thinking like an industrial designer?......Page 356 E-learning by studying: topics for online architectural design teaching......Page 362 Is this the future? Case study: a competition winning green tower designed in BIM......Page 366 Forum 10: Design Research......Page 370 A new nature......Page 372 Post digital......Page 376 Soft garniture: developing hybrid materials between academia and industry......Page 380 The architect and the academy: research through design at the Welsh School of Architecture......Page 386 Designing for time: the case of kinetic skins......Page 392 Forum 11: Courses and Curricula......Page 396 Developing sustainable architecture education in Kuwait University: beginning from where the others ended......Page 398 One model for the reform of the architectural HE curriculum in the context of EHEA......Page 404 Restructuring Architectural education: a review of the curriculum, objectives and outcomes......Page 408 Developing a new architecture curriculum: achieving educational goals within program constraints......Page 412 Lines in the sand: teaching architecture in Doha......Page 418 A curriculum for city design......Page 422 Experiments in traditional building, architecture and urbanism education: INTBAU's recent work......Page 428 The European School of Urbanism and Architecture: a model curriculum for an age of globalisation......Page 434 Designing architectural curricula according to international documents: the case of the Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus......Page 438 RIBA Examination in Architecture for Office-based Candidates: a unique and flexible alternative......Page 442 Designing the future professional: expectations of the next generation......Page 446 Designing an academic syllabus for the Master of Science in Urban Design and Conservation at Khwopa Engineering College, Nepal......Page 452 Climate change as inspiration to a better built environment......Page 458 Appendix......Page 460 M......Page 470 Z......Page 471