Tag: Australian educators abroad
A cultural and generational shift in teaching architecture
Scott Drake, an Australian educator in Thailand, explains the cultural and technical challenges of teaching Thai students to be “international.”
Architecture schools can be self-obsessed and claustrophobic
Tom Heneghan, a professor in the Department of Architecture at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, reflects on the eye-, mind-, and door-openning opportunities of “internationalized” architectural education.
Could a radically open architecture school help graduates invent jobs?
Australian educator Gretchen Wilkins, Head of Architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, says that in the face of an uncertain future, architecture schools could foster whole new types of creative practice.
Architecture can no longer afford to live in a capital ‘A’ bubble
Richard Blythe, professor and dean at the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, says architecture will need to be rethought in terms of less predictable and more hostile environmental conditions.
Is architectural education outmoded, overpriced and increasingly irrelevant?
Architectural educators are inventing and trialling new education models to meet the challenges brought on the ‘marketization’ of higher education.
‘Storytelling is a critical act of architecture’: Liam Young
In widening the scope of architecture beyond buildings alone, could architects design the next Hollywood blockbuster or video game landscape?
