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Cohen, Rosetta Marantz; Mule, Lucy – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2019
This article describes a co-taught course that mobilized a Design Thinking approach in the service of creating a prototype for an actual girls' boarding school in Kenya. The goal of the class was to allow students to engage collaboratively with faculty, with their peers, and with experts "on the ground" to develop the various parts of…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Al Husban, Ahmad A. S.; Al Husban, Safa A. M.; Al Betawi, Yamen – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2016
Higher educational systems become increasingly oriented towards the competences-based student-centered learning and outcome approach. Worldwide, these systems are focusing on the students as a whole: focusing on their dimensional, intellectual, professional, psychological, moral, and spiritual. This research was conducted in an attempt to answer…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Competency Based Education, Student Centered Learning, Architectural Education
Mulrooney, Sarah – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
One of the central themes addressed by this paper is the design of the curriculum for architectural education using three schools of architecture: the Bauhaus in Dessau, Crown Hall in Chicago and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) in Sao Paulo. It also reflects on the practices in other schools such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin…
Descriptors: Architecture, Curriculum Design, Architectural Education, Construction Materials
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Kember, Deborah; Brandenburg, Tony; Murphy, Angela – Australian Educational Computing, 2007
The ACCE position statement for creating media enriched learning communities targets all stakeholders in educational policy and practice who influence the future of learning, schools, and systems. Stakeholders include policy-makers in government, national and international organisations, professional networks and institutions, school leaders,…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Building Design, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Murray, Joseph C.; And Others – 1971
The final report of Task Force for Housing Management consists of three sections: (1) A Blueprint for the Management of Publicly-Assisted Housing (Revised); (2) A Program and Curriculum Design for the Institute of Housing Management Training; and (3) A Balanced Strategy for Development and Management. In Section I, three sub-sections are: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Building Design, Construction Programs, Curriculum Design
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Unay, Ali Ihsan; Ozmen, Cengiz – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2006
This paper explores the place of structural design within undergraduate architectural education. The role and format of lecture-based structure courses within an education system, organized around the architectural design studio is discussed with its most prominent problems and proposed solutions. The fundamental concept of the current teaching…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Fundamental Concepts, Building Design, Architecture
Cowan, Henry – Journal of Architectural Education, 1979
Architecture uses both aesthetic and scientific research concepts in developing of modern advances. The program at the University of Sydney is discussed in terms of its uses of physical models, environmental studies, energy studies, and mathematical models and is presented as a model for relating the aesthetic and scientific. (JMF)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architectural Education, Architectural Research, Architecture
Claridge, Philip George Brian – 1979
A course for first-year architectural students is described. The approach concentrated on developing an understanding of the nature of design activity through exploration of the kind of thinking that may be applied in order to improve the first-year studio work. The course is based on the following premises: (1) it is possible and educationally…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Building Design, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives
Edwards, James C.; Templeton, Virginia – 1974
Described in the booklet are program guidelines for serving trainable mentally retarded students in California public schools. Considered are the effects of changing public attitudes and legislation on program development, and reviewed are legal provisions regarding financing, identification, assessment, and placement of trainable mentally…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Building Design, Curriculum Design
Delaware State Department of Education, 2004
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) emerged from the field of architectural design when federal legislation required universal access to buildings and other structures for individuals with disabilities. Architects began to design accessibility into buildings during their initial design stage rather than retrofitting standing structures. Using…
Descriptors: Universal Design for Learning, Access to Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Strategies
Brown, Denise Scott – Journal of Architectural Education, 1979
A series of planning-like studios are described that are both interdisciplinary and strongly structured to introduce architects to the nonarchitectural subject matter of urban design and planning. The Las Vegas and Levittown studios produced descriptions of the places studied and analyses of the physical and symbolic requirements they fulfilled.…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Character, Architectural Education, Architectural Programing
McAninch, Christopher – 1981
The architecture sequence at Hiram College, Ohio, which consists of three courses and supervised volunteer work at restoration sites in the region, is described. The sequence links American architecture and the broader areas of cultural history and literature, and the courses are open to any student in the college. The introductory course examines…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Architectural Education, Art History, Building Design