Architectural Education Summit

At IE University in Segovia is taking place an important conference on architectural education.

Organized by UCLA, all the deans are talking about the education of architecture. Will schools of architecture be able to rectify a situation they contributed to create? I doubt it.

Design Education Research

Open publication - Free publishing - More design

The importance of Design Education Research for design educators is perfectly described by Erik Bohemia at the last paper of this interesting conference:

"it is imperative in these taxing times that design educators continue research their educational practices and the assumptions underpinning these practices. The reason for this is so that they will be able to respond to the changes described above with informed knowledge. This means that they will be able to (re)design curriculum in order to incorporate "desired" changes and/or to "preserve" elements that are deemed important to produce a relevant design education."

New Winds from the South

From 8th to 10th of June in Frotaleza, Brazil this interesting conference on the young architecture of Latin America. Creativity in the near future is going to blow from that part of the world too. The link has more information

Architectural Pedagogy Conference

Next week there is going to take place at Princeton this conference. It seems that architecture is so self-satisfied with its success in the era of money bubbles that ignores its responsibilities in what is happening.

A great contribution to overcome current crisis from the architectural world could be improving its pedagogy and therefor traditional teaching. What a pity.

Reflexive Architecture Laboratory (RAL), Laboratorio de Arquitectura Reflexiva (LAR)

Reflexive Architecture Laboratory (RAL), a paper related to the design studios of professors Miguel Jaime and Eugenia Lopez Reus, is going to be presented at an international congress sponsored by the Spanish Universities of Vigo, Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña. The I Congress of University Teaching is going to take place from the 2^nd to the 4^th of June in the beautiful city of Vigo, and it will gather together experts from various countries that are trying to build the European Space for Higher Education.

The RAL combines the reflexive theory of architectural creative process (JAIME, 2000), the importance of context in innovation (LOPEZ REUS, 2002) and modern pedagogical techniques that improve creativity, commitment and excellence.

The RAL has been assessed by the Quality Agency of Castilla León (2005-2008), Benchmarking meetings (2008), and, which is more important for the reflexive philosophy of the RAL, has been highly appreciated by the users of the laboratory, the students, in the surveys (2005-2009). The Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca is about to publish the paper “Las sesiones ECCC en el LAR”, one of the pedagogical techniques of the RAL.

CAT Conference in Segovia

The CAT Competition will be the subject of a conference at the IE School of Architecture in Segovia this coming Sunday. The program in Spanish is:

Semana de la Arquitectura
PRESENTACION CAT
fecha domingo 30 de noviembre 11:30
lugar IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Aula magna


AGENDA DEL ACTO

1 Saludo del Alcalde.
(10 minutos)
2 Presentación de los equipos por Martha Thorne. Executive Director. The Pritzker Architecture Prize
(8 minutos)

3 David Chipperfield
(20 minutos) (20 imagenes)
-Presentación del Master Plan
-Reflexiones sobre el Espacio Público. Las tres plazas.

4 Andrés Perea
Nuevos lugares para el trabajo. Espacios para Emprendedores
(10 imágenes, 10 minutos)

5 Juan Carlos Sancho y Sol madridejos
Las referencias singulares. El espacio cultural del CAT. (10
imágenes)

6 Jerónimo Junquera
El control de la escala ó los itinerarios en el CAT. El Centro de
Ocio y comercial (10 imágenes)

7 David Chipperfield
El CAT hacia el exterior. El Palacio de Congresos. (10 imágenes)

8 Mesa redonda y coloquio
los cuatro equipos moderado por Martha Thorne. (40 minutos)
(imágenes de la maqueta colectiva de fondo)
Martha llevará una serie de preguntas preparadas que irá
lanzando a los integrantes mesa y se pueden intercalar las
preguntas del público que recogeremos mediante cartulinas
que pasaremos a la mesa (seleccionadas)