12 Ways to Reform Architectural Education
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
Carlo Scarpa working on the design of the Banca Popolare di Verona, with his associates, Arrigo Rudi and Renato Scarazzai. Photo courtesy of George Dodds.
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
This essay is an excerpt from the final chapter of Draw in Order to See: A cognitive history of architectural design, which outlines recommendations for reforming architectural education and practice. It uses the theory of embodied cognition—the science behind how our brains take in the built environment—to underscore the need for designers to reject the alienating legacy of Enlightenment rationalism that has pushed architects away from artisanal literacy since the industrial revolution. Although some of these practices and methods are already employed by individual educators and included in some curricula, they are neither widespread nor (more important) mandated in NCARB standards.
