Architectural Education Through Materiality

Introduction: a passage to material hermeneutics Elke Couchez & Rajesh Heynickx Section 1: Objects on Display: Learning Through Looking 1. From wooden blocks to Scottish tartans. Dom Hans van der Laan’s reconciliation of rational patterns and spatial experience. Caroline Voet 2. A Walking exhibit. Alfons Hoppenbrouwers’s visual pedagogy Elke Couchez 3. Clashing perspectives: Joseph Rykwert’s object lesson at Ulm School of Design. Paul James 4. Pancho’s passages: framing transitional objects for decolonial education in 1980s South Africa Hannah le Roux Section 2: Hands-on: Learning Through Manual Work 5. Planning problems: data graphics in the education of architects and planners at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 1940s. Anna Vallye 6. The Cambridge collage: Dalibor Vesely, phenomenology, and architectural design method Joseph Bedford 7. Little living labs: 1970s student design-build projects and the objects of experimental lifestyles Lee Stickells Section 3: Bodies in Space: Synesthetic Learning 8. The body as an ultimate form of architecture. Global Tools Body Workshops Silvia Franceschini 9. Parallel narratives of disciplinary disruption. The bush campus as design and pedagogical concept. Susan Holden 10. Environmental learning revisited: cities, issues, bodies. Isabelle Doucet Section 4: Learning by Technologies: Audio-Visual Transmissions 11. In the eye of the projector. Wölfflin, slides and architecture in postwar America Rajesh Heynickx 12. Wireless architecture: Robert Cummings’ early radio broadcasts John Macarthur and Deborah van der Plaat 13. The captive lecturer James Benedict Brown Index