This paper reflects upon the mechanisms that enable development of curricular approaches to multidisciplinary architecture/engineering higher education. Building upon recent calls for integrated multidisciplinary building design practice, academics at UCL, industry partners and respective professional bodies embarked upon developing a new course…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the role of planned, sudden shifts in lived experiences, in influencing learner capabilities towards improved problem-solving for sustainable development outcomes. The authors responded to employers of engineering and built environment graduates observing limited "real-life" problem-solving skills,…

In the competitive market of higher education, government funding agencies consider universities accountable for ensuring a better alignment between educational processes, graduate capabilities and real world employability. Workforce leaders have developed new expectations about the capabilities of graduating students, expecting to employ…

The marriage between the method, theory, and content of traditional architectural education and the social sciences is discussed. It is suggested that the architecture student, the profession, and the social scientists need to work cooperatively in the teaching of architecture in the context of the design studio. (MLW)

Ways that environment and behavior research is taught to design students and how it is being introduced into architectural curricula/design studio are examined. Examples of explicit environment and behavior research use in building designs are provided. (MLW)

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.…

Designed for history teachers of students in grades 4-7 and for museum educators, this teacher's manual interprets art and objects in the Hall of State (Dallas) within the context of the Texas history curriculum. Although the guide focuses specifically on Texas history and the Hall of State, it can be used as a model for museum and school…