architectural educator
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An architectural educator is a person who trains prospective professional architects and architectural technicians. This involves training in the discipline of architectural design or more specifically, the design of constructed environments.
Architectural Education has both public architectural education and professional architectural education stakeholder groups.{{Cite journal|last1=Könings|first1=Karen D.|last2=Bovill|first2=Catherine|last3=Woolner|first3=Pamela|date=2017|title=Towards an interdisciplinary model of practice for participatory building design in education|journal=European Journal of Education|language=en|volume=52|issue=3|pages=306–317|doi=10.1111/ejed.12230|issn=1465-3435|doi-access=free}}
Architectural educators may work in the service of the architectural profession or in the wider community. Architectural education in many countries is regulated by validation or accreditation.{{Cite journal|last1=Masri|first1=Sawsan Saridar|last2=Arnaouty|first2=Hisham|date=January 2015|title=Architecture Program Accreditation: A Pathway to Graduates International Mobility|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319311448|journal=Athens Journal of Architecture|pages=79|via=researchgate.net}}{{Cite web|date=2017-06-29|title=Accreditation of Architecture Programs {{!}} Architects Accreditation Council Of Australia|url=https://www.aaca.org.au/accreditation-of-architecture-programs/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Architects Accreditation Council Of Australia {{!}} The Architects Accreditation Council of Australia is recognised as the national organisation responsible for establishing, coordinating and advocating national standards for the registration of architects in Australia and for the recognition of Australian architects overseas by the relevant Registration Authorities.|language=en-US}} In the wider community, architectural educators may use their knowledge to raise citizens or members of a community's awareness of their respective environment, and their role in its ownership and custodianship.
Architectural Educators are represented by national and regional associations such as ACSA in the US, the ACA in Australia and New Zealand,{{Cite web|date=2019-12-16|title=Architectural Education and the Profession|url=https://aca.org.au/architectural-education-and-the-profession/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=ACA - Association of Consulting Architects Australia|language=en-AU}} and the EAAE in Europe.{{Cite web|title=Home - European Association for Architectural Education -European Association for Architectural Education|url=https://www.eaae.be/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=www.eaae.be}}
History of architectural education
Architecture has a history of being used as an educational tool, traditionally practised by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, or as an educational heurism, as in the case of the work of Indian architect Anupama Kundoo.
Architecture was "archaically" defined in Western history by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Rome c. 40 BC) as a culturally "higher order".{{Cite book|last=Vitruvius Pollio|first=Marcus|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/architecture-of-marcus-vitruvius-pollio/8250EB8606746754D99A9BE5813A06E1|title=The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books|date=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-07052-2|series=Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture|location=Cambridge|translator-last=Gwilt|translator-first=Joseph|doi=10.1017/cbo9781107280670}} In the writing, De architectura (On Architecture, in Ten Books), Vitruvius also formalised written Western architectural education. Other cultures also have aural and tactile non-textual architectural education traditions.{{Cite journal|last=Olweny|first=Mark R. O.|date=2020-08-17|title=Architectural education in sub-Saharan Africa: an investigation into pedagogical positions and knowledge frameworks|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2020.1800794|journal=The Journal of Architecture|volume=25|issue=6|pages=717–735|doi=10.1080/13602365.2020.1800794|s2cid=222232668|issn=1360-2365|url-access=subscription}} Contemporary education about the order and placement of things has been regarded as a hermeneutic (in Schleiermacher's sense): as developing citizens' understanding about the ecological significance of arrangements of people and things in particular human environments.{{Cite journal|last1=Landa|first1=Garcia|last2=Angel|first2=Jose|date=1993|title=Notes on Friedrich Schleiermacher's|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2526404|language=en|location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=2526404}}
List of architectural educators
Some architectural educators are:
- Iain Borden
- Beatriz Colomina{{cite web|url=http://architecture.mit.edu/htc/pedagogy/no_frames/speakers.html#colomina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909081719/http://architecture.mit.edu/htc/pedagogy/no_frames/speakers.html#colomina|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-09-09|title=HTC at MIT [ Pedagogy Conference [ Speakers|date=9 September 2006|accessdate=31 October 2018}}
- Mazharul Islam
- Eugene Pandala
- Balkrishna Doshi{{archINFORM|arch|3531|Balkrishna V. Doshi|2018-10-31}}
- Deborah Howard{{archINFORM|arch|12437|Deborah Howard|2018-10-31}}
- Anupama Kundoo{{cite web|url=http://www.auroville.org/thecity/architecture/anupama.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060407053546/http://www.auroville.org/thecity/architecture/anupama.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 April 2006|title=Anupama|date=7 April 2006|accessdate=31 October 2018}}