Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education.
Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. As a corrective, Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention asserts disciplinary knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education. The insurgent pedagogy introduced subverts architecture and its teaching’s capture by capitalism’s dominant modes of production and consumption to reveal unexpected tactics for enlarging possibilities.
Grounded in architecture histories and theories, philosophy, anarchism’s emphasis on use and dissensus, combined with PUNK’s DIY ethos, design studio emphasis on technicity is upended to reveal the subversive aim of intensifying tensions between (doomed) desires for artistic autonomy and (intrinsic) burdens of use constituting architecture as a discipline, instead of seeking resolution, some neutral middle ground, or escape into banal practice, or paper palaces.
By concentrating on what architecture education suppresses (tensions), disavows (its capture within the building industry), or affirms (commercial practice over disciplinary knowledge), Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention cracks open horizons of possibility by showing how intensifying agonistic relationships between the myriad binaries that characterize architecture and its teaching is generative, in ways conciliatory synthesis, cathartic resolution, and uncritical affirmation are not.
Acknowledgements
Introduction. The Good Enough Architect (Redux)
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01. Firmness, Commodity, Delight?
Chapter 02 Becoming Operative
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03. Imagining & (Re)Making
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04. Playing with Negative Dialectics
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05. (Re)Mapping the Neo-Avant-Garde
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06. Cognitive Mapping
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07. Reconstructing Architecture
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08. Recapitulations
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Nathaniel Coleman is Reader in History and Theory of Architecture at Newcastle University, UK. He previously taught in the US, worked as an architect in NY and Rome, and studied architecture at the IAUS and RISD, and Urban Design at CCNY. He researched his PhD at UPenn. A world-leading scholar on architecture and utopias, Nathaniel leads design studios and theory seminars, focusing on reconstructing architecture through inventing anarchist spatial practices, concentrating on the limits and possibilities of architectural neo-avant-gardes. His books include Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings (2020); Lefebvre for Architects (Routledge, 2015); Utopias and Architecture (Routledge, 2005); and as editor, Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia (2011). Recent book chapters include Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now (2024) and Rehabilitating Operative Criticism: The Return of Theory against Entrepreneurialism (Routledge, 2022).
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