Architectural Design

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The Bauhaus: preliminary course ›

Architectural education

› Architectural Association: student pavilions

Architectural education today

Today the design studio is central to most systems of

architectural education and practice. Learning to design has

much in common with other practical arts, such as learning

to play an instrument. The more you practise, the better you

get. The act of learning by doing gives you instant feedback

in terms of the visual and physical result and this allows you

to do it better the next time. Just as music students rehearse

for a big concert, architecture students working on a project

in the studio are getting ready for their first commission.

Student projects are rarely truly ‘live’ in the way that

professional projects are, but normally have some element

of reality embedded in them.

The legacy of apprenticeships and the old master/pupil

relationships that previously existed in the training of

architects have had an influence on the structure of

architectural education today. During every design project,

students are assigned to a design-studio tutor, to give them

the opportunity to learn from a range of architects and their

different approaches to design.

Sketchbook

This sketchbook page, by U Ieong

To, illustrates the analysis of sound

on site. A sketchbook records the

progress and process of a project,

and it is the process of architectural

design that students of architecture

are engaged in learning. In addition

to sketches, diagrams, notes, site

information, precedent images and

trial pieces for the project itself,

a sketchbook may also contain

ideas for other (sometimes future)

projects and is a place to record

sources of general inspiration

such as quotations, work seen

at exhibitions, on field trips and

while travelling.

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