Less Talk More Action: Conscious Shifts in Architectural Education

The Client

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Liane Hancock, Dan Burkett & Kari Smith

As a teaching profession, faculty need not only to accommodate, but also to embrace differences in an increasingly diverse client base. Faculty need to move beyond empathy and doing good to respect and service. To facilitate this, students need to have real clients introduced at an earlier stage – down at foundation level. This paper serves as case study: it outlines changes to assignments in second year studio that enhance student engagement, and traces results through student interview. The paper describes the direct experience in the foundation studio, and documents how that experience affected students’ view of client.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.FALL.19.9

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

ISBN
978-1-944214-24-1