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Pedagogy in Space: Architecture Schools' Hidden Curriculum

Jonathan Yeung — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:30:00 +0000

This article is part of our new Opinion section, a format for argument-driven essays on critical questions shaping our field.

Book Tree Structure / School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:00:00 +0000

The “Book Tree” occupies 25 m², consisting a tree structure of bookshelves surrounded by an undulating interactive sitting and reading platform. The tree structure is made of pre-fabricated timber components that is assembled and dismantled by students in 1-2 days, while the platform consists of 50 (600x600 mm) timber boxes of different height. The tree structure is lined with a waterproof fabric, which provides sun and rain protection. It is equipped with LED lighting for reading.

Designing Change

Rene Submissions — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Over the timespan of just one generation the planet’s pace of urbanization has dramatically increased. Through these dynamics and its resulting environmental threats, new challenges have emerged that deeply question the validity of the post-war planning paradigms. Dominant ideologies have been replaced by a problem-solving attitude, increased economic pressure and an urgent quest for evidence. What impact does this have on the work of the urban designer and planner, and how can the profession prepare for the future?

Designing Change tries to answer these and many other questions through in-depth conversations with 12 leading practitioners in the field. Conceived as an

Open Call-School of Architecture

Rene Submissions — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:08:00 +0000

Call me Architecture. I am a product of a way of thinking. Over the years, I have presented myself as a dream of civilizations. I have found myself layered endlessly, while my contemporaries have evolved into rather noteworthy images of their primitive selves. Although I am interpreted differently in many a space and time, I may mean the same. I see myself as an instrument to elucidate problems. My nature of debates may have changed and my discipline altered, but I have existed with one and only one purpose: to serve. I remember and I do reflect.

Call for submissions: ROOM // Issue 01 - Bathroom

Rene Submissions — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Room is an independent student publication out of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Each issue of the annual digest explores a different distinguishable room and challenges its boundaries and demarcations, both material and immaterial.

For its inaugural issue, Room will be exploring the Bathroom. 2017 marks the passing of one century since Duchamp’s Fountain was first showcased. The piece’s now-cliché status belies the fact that in the century since its exhibition, the space of the bathroom—along with its associated paraphernalia—has retained the stigma as that which is auxiliary or subordinate to rooms of

Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto Through Fernando Guerra's Lenses

Eduardo Souza — Fri, 05 May 2017 06:00:00 +0000

This week we present the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto through the lenses of Fernando Guerra. Here we share a complete series from the photographer of this iconic work, along with a brief text on the subject. The University of Porto plays a major role in the world's architectural landscape, always among the highest in rankings and boasting great architects like Eduardo Souto de Moura (Pritzker 2011), Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza Vieira (Pritzker 1992).