Changing Architectural Education : Towards a New Professionalism

ISBN-13: 9780419259206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str.

Simon Pilling; David Nicol

Opis

Architectural education is under pressure to change to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. Influential reports and studies within the construction industry over the 1990s all point to the need for more collaboration within, and across, the construction professions and for better understanding and communication between the professions and their clients, building users and society. There is a growing call that architects and other construction professionals further develop the soft skills relevant to the human dimension of professional practice. How should architectural education respond to these professional challenges? How can students be better prepared for professional practice?

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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