Less Talk More Action: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education

RFP: Request for Pedagogy

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Irene Hwang

As the professional reality of architectural practice has radically transformed in the last decade, the teaching of professional practice as a core course has remained static for four times as long. Even while current practice explodes into many different innovative models and methods, the teaching of professional practice has hardly budged. We must turn our focus to a new tertiary, the territory between the historical binary of the scholarly pursuit of the academy and the practical work of the profession. To that end, this paper presents a new mindset for teaching professional practice by unpacking piloted methods and concepts through five compact case studies: 1) First Day of Class: Setting the Tone for Engagement 2) Syllabus: The Importance of Transparency 3) Writing The Syllabus: The Importance of Transparency 4) Curricular Value: Why Credits Matter 5) RFP: Request for Pedagogy

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.FALL.19.15

Volume Editors
Amy Larimer, Deborah Berke, Diana Lin, Drew Krafcik, John Barton & Sunil Bald

ISBN
978-1-944214-24-1