Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education

✍ Scribed by Julie Kim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education. Annotated case studies both from academic institutions and from professional practices provide examples of interdisciplinary engagement in creative design work, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of this approach. Cases are from a diverse selection of international collaborators, featuring projects from the USA, Australia, Mexico, Germany and Italy, and cover a range of project types and scales. Chapters by invited experts offer speculations on current and future models, situating examples within the broader context, and encouraging dialogue between practice and pedagogy. The collection of voices in this book offers critical and provocative lenses, learning from history while forging inventive and creative roles for the architect as practitioner, entrepreneur, strategist, choreographer, activist, facilitator, leader, and teacher. Interdisciplinary Design Thinking provides insights into the potential of interdisciplinary engagement at the level of foundational undergraduate education, making it ideal for faculty in architecture schools. It will also be of interest to design professionals concerned with interdisciplinary collaboration and how to incorporate similar efforts in their own practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 0: Introduction
1. Setting the Table
PART I: Expanding Disciplinary Fields: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in the Academy
2. Re-thinking Architecture Education
Provocations
3. Questioning “Best” Practices in Architectural Education
4. From Disciplinary Fields to Interdisciplinary Challenges: Shifting the Focus of Architectural Education
5. Integrative Technologies in Architecture: Toward an Interdisciplinary and Future-Proof Research Culture
Case Studies from the Academy
6. Which Comes First?
7. Interdisciplinary Transition
8. The Yamuna River Project: Interdisciplinarity across and beyond the Fields of the Built Environment in Architectural Education
9. Building Innovation at Arizona State University
10. Data Augmented Design Intelligence: Enabling Interdisciplinarity
11. Out of Scope: How Megaliths Challenge Architecture’s Role
12. Perform: Making a Case for Expanded Structural Dialogues in Architecture Education
13. Aqueous Landscapes: Teaching and Learning in the Intertidal Zone in Second Year Architectural Design Studio
14. Building Beloved Community through the University of Washington’s Nehemiah Interdisciplinary Studio
15. Integrated Studio: Trade-offs as a Mechanism for Collaboration
16. The Story of a Semi-Scientist
PART II: Integrating Disciplines: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in Practice
17. Learning from Practice – Or Practice Learning from Education
Provocation 01
18. Meandering Transdisciplinary Lands
Case Studies from Practice
19. Crosscoding Cultures: Design and Data across Disciplines
20. The Architectural Incongruities between Speculation and Practice
21. Practice beyond the Digital Bubble
22. The Unexpected Solution: How Multidisciplinary Enriches the Design Process
23. Learning by Doing
Provocation 02
24. Pedagogical Practices
PART III: Experimenting in Interdisciplinarity: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in the Academy and Practice
25. Shameless Experimentation: Making Space for Interdisciplinary Exchange
26. Expanding Interdisciplinary Fields: Reflections on the Science of Design
27. Interdisciplinary Dialogues: What are the Boundaries of Design (or Design as a Mode of Inquiry)
28. Walking the Boundaries of the Built Environment
Index