Description
The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession.
Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on one of these three dimensions while establishing continuity with the other two. In doing so, the book not only favors a more fulfilling interaction between academia and the profession but also reinforces the implementation of design theory and research in everyday teaching and practice. The contributions come from 18 teams of architects operating from geographically diverse locations, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Chile, Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan, Barclay & Crousse in Peru, Shift in Iran, Heinrich Wolff in South Africa, and People’s Architecture Office in China, opening the design conversation to larger contexts and framing continuity and inclusion in time.
Written for students, instructors, and practitioners alike, the inspiring reflections in this volume encourage readers to grow as architects and play an instrumental role in transforming the built environment.
Table of Contents
Forewords
The Necessary Impracticality of Research, Circuity of Pedagogy, and Resistance of Practice
Nader Tehrani
Approaching Architecture: Three Fields, One Discipline
Miguel Guitart
Acknowledgments
PART I. Architecture as Research
1. Normal Inventory
Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen / Pezo von Ellrichshausen
2. Fitness on Connected Fields: Distance, Time, and Conversation
Balázs Bognár / Kengo Kuma & Associates
3. The Substrate of Architectural Experimentation: Tradition and Architectural Design
Luis Pancorbo, Inés Martín-Robles / Pancorbo Arquitectos
4. How Much Room for a Dream in Tehran?
Nashid Nabian and Rambod Eilkhani / [SHIFT] / Fereshteh Assadzadeh
5. Building Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Design
Helena Casanova and Jesús Hernández / Casanova&Hernandez
PART II. Architecture as Pedagogy
6. Teaching Architecture: At the Vanguard of Rearguard
Luis Suárez Mansilla and Asier Santas Torres / Suárez Santas Arquitectos
7. Fun Palaces on the Buffalo Outer Harbor
Julia Jamrozik / Kempster Jamrozik
8. A Certain Praise for Drawings: Sources, Goals, and Tools
Rubén Alcolea and Jorge Tárrago / Alcolea & Tárrago
9. The Trellis at Silo City: A Case Study for Design-Build in a Post-Industrial Context
Nicholas B. Rajkovich, Joyce Hwang, and Laura Garófalo
10. Constructing Space
Jeannette Kuo / Karamuk Kuo
PART III. Architecture as Practice
11. From Practice: Landscape, Memory, Technology
Jean Pierre Crousse and Sandra Barclay / Barclay & Crousse
12. Transformative Impact: Rethinking the Structure of Inclusive Practices
Leighton Beaman / General Architecture Collaborative
13. Unsanctioned Architecture
James Shen / People's Architecture Office
14. Developing an Architecture of Consequence
Heinrich Wolff / Wolff Architects
15. How to Build a House
Fernanda Canales
Epilogues
Reason, Emotion, and Experience: The Rational and the Existential in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
Continuum
Kengo Kuma / Kengo Huma & Associates
