Recoding Architecture Pedagogy - Insurgency and Invention

Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction. The Good Enough Architect (Redux)
Chapter 01. Firmness, Commodity, Delight?
Chapter 02 Becoming Operative
Chapter 03. Imagining and (Re)Making
Chapter 04. Playing with Negative Dialectics
Chapter 05. (Re)Mapping the Neo-Avant-Garde
Chapter 06. Cognitive Mapping
Chapter 07. Reconstructing Architecture
Chapter 08. Recapitulations
Index

About the author

Nathaniel Coleman is Reader in History and Theory of Architecture at Newcastle University, UK. He previously taught in the US, worked as an architect in NY and Rome, and studied architecture at the IAUS and RISD, and Urban Design at CCNY. He researched his PhD at UPenn. A world-leading scholar on architecture and utopias, Nathaniel leads design studios and theory seminars, focusing on reconstructing architecture through inventing anarchist spatial practices, concentrating on the limits and possibilities of architectural neo-avant-gardes. His books include Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings (2020); Lefebvre for Architects (Routledge, 2015); Utopias and Architecture (Routledge, 2005); and as editor, Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia (2011). Recent book chapters include 'Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now' (2024) and 'Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against Entrepreneurialism' (Routledge, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel (University of Newcastle Coleman, Coleman Nathaniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032800059
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3280005-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Focus on Design Pedagogy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / General, Educational psychology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Anarchism, Theory of architecture, Educational strategies and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics