TY - GEN AU - Spiller, Neil Ed. AU - Clear, Nic Ed. TI - Educating architects SN - 9780500343005 U1 - 720.7 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Thames & Hudson Ltd. KW - N1 - CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 10 Paradoxical simultaneities: architectural education at the edge of the 21st century Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich Timing’s everything . . . or is it? 22 Sir Peter Cook, CRAB Studio 250 things an architect should know 32 Michael Sorkin, City College of New York Alvin’s AA: a panorama 40 Peter L. Wilson, Bolles + Wilson Architectural anti-realism: the AA school in 2013 50 Brett Steele, Architectural Association A prime meridian 60 Nic Clear, University of Greenwich Introduction to the department of architecture and landscape, university of Greenwich Diagramming 67 Mike Aling and Mark Garcia, University of Greenwich BUILDING ARCHITECTURE LEARNING 73 Library and School of Architecture, Design and Construction, University of Greenwich Heneghan Peng Architects The architectural mixing desk of the surrealist city 78 Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich Defining your own horizons : Unit 19 86 Neil Spiller, University of Greenwich Convergence: architecture as integrated spatial design 92 Nic Clear, University of Greenwich Design animated : Unit 15 102 Nic Clear, University of Greenwich A user’s guide to the anthropocene( a short passage through a brief moment in time) 109 Simon Herron, University of Greenwich The salon of lost content (the refuge of misfits) Unit 16 121 Simon Herron and Susanne Isa, University of Greenwich Working the realities of landscape 128 Ed Wall, University of Greenwich The digital generation 138 Bob Sheil, University College London The imaginarium of urban futures 145 C. J. Lim, University College London Audacious encounters 154 Nigel Coates School of thought 166 Mark Morris, Cornell University BUILDING ARCHITECTURE LEARNING 177 Milstein Hall, Cornell University OMA BLENDscapes: a new era of transdisciplinary exchange in architecture 183 Evan Douglis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instigations: reimagining better futures 190 Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard Graduate School of Design McCormick Tribune Campus Centre, Illinois Institute of Technology 200 OMA Just about enough 205 Perry Kulper, University of Michigan Some thoughts on pedagogy 212 Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reiser, RUR Architecture The education of breathing 220 Mark Wigley, Columbia University The art and science of design at the Cooper Union 227 Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union Wot got left out 236 Ben Nicholson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago An experimental history, a history of the experiment: 1964–2013 242 Neil Denari, UCLA Robotics in architecture 248 Greg Lynn, UCLA What is SCI-Arc? 256 Eric Owen Moss, SCI-Arc Pretentious and incoherent thoughts on architecture – right now 264 Hernan Diaz Alonso, SCI-Arc Building the Berlage: notes on a continuing educational project 271 Salomon Frausto, The Berlage Three-year relationships 281 Klaus Bollinger and Reiner Zettl, University of Applied Arts Vienna The question of questioning 288 Hani Rashid, University of Applied Arts Vienna Hadid masterclass: a laboratory of design innovation 295 Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, University of Applied Arts Vienna Kings, Queens and Broadways: two projects for a new University of Applied Arts Vienna 301 Wolfgang Tschapeller Towards new aesthetics and new culture Kongjian Yu, Peking University 307 Kongjin yu, peking University Implications of architectural education : Yesterday, today and tomorrow 315 Li Xiaodong, Tsinghua University Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art and Design 321 Will Alsop, ALL Design Making a difference: embedding academic research in practice 326 Mark Burry, RMIT University Notes 336 Bibliography 340 Biographies 343 Directory 349 Picture credits 352 ER -