Approaching Architecture

<p>The study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession. </p><p>Split into three parts, "Architecture as Research," Architecture as Pedagogy," and "Architecture as Practice," each section focuses on one of these three dimensions while establishing continuity with the other two. In doing so, the book not only favors a more fulfilling interaction between academia and the profession but also reinforces the implementation of design theory and research in everyday teaching and practice. The contributions come from 18 teams of architects operating from geographically diverse locations, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Chile, Kengo Kuma & Associates in Japan, Barclay & Crousse in Peru, Shift in Iran, Heinrich Wolff in South Africa, and People’s Architecture Office in China, opening the design conversation to larger contexts and framing continuity and inclusion in time. </p><p>Written for students, instructors, and practitioners alike, the inspiring reflections in this volume encourage readers to grow as architects and play an instrumental role in transforming the built environment.</p> <p><strong>PART I. Architecture as Research</strong></p><p>1.<strong> </strong>Normal Inventory</p><p>2. Fitness on Connected Fields: Distance, Time, and Conversation</p><p><em>3. </em>The Substrate of Architectural Experimentation: Tradition and Architectural Design</p><p><em>4. </em>How Much Room for a Dream in Tehran?</p><p>5. Building Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Design</p><p><b>PART II. Architecture as Pedagogy</b></p><p>6. Teaching Architecture: At the Vanguard of Rearguard</p><p>7. Fun Palaces on the Buffalo Outer Harbor</p><p>8. A Certain Praise for Drawings: Sources, Goals, and Tools</p><p>9. The Trellis at Silo City: A Case Study for Design-Build in a Post-Industrial Context</p><p>10. Constructing Space</p><p><b>PART III. Architecture as Practice</b></p><p>11. From Practice: Landscape, Memory, Technology</p><p>12. Transformative Impact: Rethinking the Structure of Inclusive Practices </p><p>13. Unsanctioned Architecture</p><p>14. Developing an Architecture of Consequence </p><p>15. How to Build a House</p>