Architectural educator

An architectural educator is someone with the role of teaching others about architecture, or more specifically, the design of constructed environments. Their role requires critical thinking skills, communication skills and keen problem solving abilities. Architectural Education has both public architectural education and professional architectural education stakeholder groups.

Architectural educators may work in the service of the architectural profession or in the wider community. Architectural education in many countries is regulated by validation or accreditation. In the wider community, architectural educators may use their knowledge to raise citizens or members of a community's awareness of their respective environment, and their role in its ownership and custodianship.

Architectural Educators are represented by national and regional associations such as ACSA in the US, and the EAAE in Europe.

In some cases, architecture itself may become a tool of education, as traditionally practised by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, or as an educational heurism, as in the case of the work of a lesser known figure such as Anupama Kundoo (see below)

History of architecture

Architecture was "archaically" defined in Western history by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Rome c. 40 BC) as a culturally "higher order". Yet in writing De architectura (On Architecture, in Ten Books), Vitruvius also formalised written Western architectural education. Many other cultures have aural and tactile non-textual architectural education traditions. Contemporary education about the order and placement of things can equally be regarded as a hermeneutic (in Schleiermacher's sense): as developing citizens' understanding about the ecological significance of arrangements of people and things in particular human environments.


List of architectural educators

Some architectural educators are:

References
  1. "HTC at MIT [ Pedagogy Conference [ Speakers". Web.archive.org. 9 September 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-09-09. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. Balkrishna V. Doshi at archINFORM. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  3. Deborah Howard at archINFORM. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. "Anupama". 7 April 2006. Archived from the original on 7 April 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
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