`Stuckness' in the design studio

✍ Scribed by Avigail Sachs

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 63 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(98)00034-9

✦ Synopsis

he design studio, the setting of most architectural design education today, is a complex and challenging experience. Not only are the students expected to grasp many new concepts and ideas but they are also asked to perform at least two tasks simultaneously: to design and to learn to design. The students in addition must present and defend ideas, conduct personal relationships with instructors and fellow students and learn new techniques and skills. The studio is more than a place to study, it is the situation in which the student is initiated into what Dana Cuff has called the culture of the architectural profession 1 . It is here that the students learn what is currently accepted as 'architecture', 'design' and the 'role of the architect'. Few student can fully complete the studio requirements without encountering difficulties and dilemmas. In some cases these problems 1 Cuff, D Architecture: The Story of Practice MIT Press, Cambridge (1991)