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There is a newfound interest in architectural education. This AD is a survey of some of the best contemporary architecture student work in the world. The most forward-looking architecture schools worldwide are reinventing pedagogy in the hope of developing radical syllabi that are a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Design education is changing and adapting to compensate for the new material changes to the discipline, and is being used to disentangle old, outmoded spatial practices and replace them with new paradigms of space and representation. This issue showcases the students and teachers who are pushing the envelope of architecture in extraordinary ways, offering their insights into its future materiality and spatial dexterity. It premieres a new young generation of architects who are likely to become names in the architectural profession and possibly important teachers themselves. Their work has been selected by their own influential teachers of architecture who describe the studio methodologies - and reasons for them - that prompted the work.
Contributors: Daniel K Brown, Jane Burry, Nat Chard, Odile Decq, Evan Douglis, Riet Eeckhout, Mark Garcia, Nicolas Hannequin, Perry Kulper, Elena Manferdini, Mark Morris, Hani Rashid, and Michael Young.
Featured institutions: A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan; Architectural Association, London; Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London; Carleton University, Ottawa; CONFLUENCE Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris; Cooper Union, New York; University of Greenwich, London; KU Leuven, Belgium; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York; Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles; Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
List of contents
About the Editor 4
Neil Spiller
Introduction 6
The Next Generation
Circling the Table
Neil Spiller
The Magic of Asking 'What if?' 14
Radical Architectural Pedagogy
Elena Manferdini
Some Colours 24
Unravelling Thesis Constructions
Perry Kulper
Accelerating Towards Abundance 34
Planetary Strategies in the Era of the Anthropocene
Evan Douglis
Disciplinary Displacements 44
The Revaluation of Conventions through the Postgraduate Thesis
Michael Young
A Canvas on which to Feast 52
A Canadian Adventure
Neil Spiller
Making the Means to Draw Out Ideas 60
Nat Chard
Project Documentaries 68
The Rise of the Cinematic Portfolio
Mark Morris
Post-Operative 'Post-isms' 76
Details of the 21st-Century Educations of Architecturalists
Mark Garcia
Drawing on Situational Sites 86
Riet Eeckhout
Building the Future with Architecture 96
Nicolas Hannequin
Re-envisioning Healthcare Urbanism and Architecture 104
Hani Rashid
New Melbourne Pedagogics 112
A Virtual Web of Actions
Jane Burry
The Allegorical Architectural Project 120
Provocateurs, Propositions and Confrontations
Daniel K Brown
From Another Perspective 128
Going Underground
Rick Gooding
Neil Spiller
Contributors 134
About the author
NEIL SPILLER is Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London, prior to this he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Neil has guest-edited 7 titles of AD including the highly successful
Architects in Cyberspace I and II (1995, 1998),
Protocell Architecture (2011) and
Drawing Architecture (2013). He is a member of the AD Editorial Board. He has also published books with Thames and Hudson, as author of
Visionary Architecture-Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006),
Digital Architecture Now (2008) and as co-editor of
Educating Architects (2014).
