Five Critical Essays on Architectural Education

This pamphlet is a critical intervention into architectural education.



Specifically referencing the uk, its critique is applicable more broadly. It is the first salvo in what we hope will be an open and challenging conversation.



We want you to read the essays, criticise or support them, pass them on and discuss the issues raised. We know that there are many things to argue about in the state of architecture, urbanism, construction and education. Only by opening the floor to a range of speculative opinions will we be able to clarify the best direction for the subject. We must provide the space for faculty members, academicians, architects and students to genuinely experiment.



Within the academy of all places, dissenting views should be tolerated but argued over, challenged but respected so that bold, new, and sometimes unorthodox ideas can flourish.



How then should architecture be taught?