Experiential Learning in Architectural Education: Design-build and Live Projects

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, and civic and governmental organizations engaged in socio-spatial projects.

The book is (1) an academic source of critical and practice-driven knowledge on experiential architectural design learning, (2) provides methods for other ways of learning in the form of design-build and live projects and (3) offers design inspiration for community-engaged spatial practices relevant to both educators and practising architects and designers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
BURAK PAK AND AURELIE DE SMET
Chapter 1: When Design-Build Met the Live Project – or – What Is a Live-Build Project Anyway?
JAMES BENEDICT BROWN AND PETER RUSSELL
Chapter 2: Inspiring Public Imagination through a Micro Ecovillage for Students
CAMERON VAN DYKE
Chapter 3: Moving from Learning to Doing: An Educational Experience of Temporary Tactical Action
SILVIA TEDESCO, ELENA MONTACCHINI, TOMMASO FERRARIS AND CARLOTTA GERBINO
Chapter 4: Training Future Architects through Professional Responsibility: Working with Real Cases in the Master’s Degree in Architecture at Vallès School of Architecture
MARTA SERRA-PERMANYER AND ROGER-JOAN SAUQUET LLONCH
Chapter 5: Community-Engaged Architectural Design Learning as Critical Spatial Practice: The Case of the Solidary Mobile Housing Project
AURELIE DE SMET, BURAK PAK, YVES SCHOONJANS, SARA VANTOURNHOUT, GERALDINE BRUYNEEL, TINEKE VAN HEESVELDE, AND KEN DE COOMAN
Chapter 6: Co-Creating Urban Strategies through Trans-Local Learning Alliances
CATALINA ORTIZ