Changing Architectural Education - Towards a New Professionalism

Examines and discusses contemporary architectural education, particulary focusing on studio design teaching and its potential to enhance attitudes and skills in communication and teamworking and to prepare students for a future profession.

List of contents

Preface. Foreword. The profession and its eduation. Communication - learning to respond to the needs of clients and users. Collaboration - developing teamworking skills for practice. Design thinking - strengthening integrative and analytical thinking. Life-long learning - developing independence in learning. A new professionalism - embedding change across the school. Appendices.

About the author

Simon Pilling is the Architect and Project Co-ordinator of CUDE (Clinets and Users in Design Education).

Product details

• Assisted by: David Nicol (Editor), Nicol David (Editor), Simon Pilling (Editor), Pilling Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2000
• EAN: 9780419259206
• ISBN: 978-0-419-25920-6
• No. of pages: 318
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, The environment, Theory of architecture, Architecture: professional practice, Civil engineering, surveying and building