Harriss Harriet - Architecture live projects: pedagogy into practice

Architecture Live Projects provides a persuasive, evidence-based advocacy for moving a particular kind of architectural learning, known as Live Projects, towards a holistic integration into current and future architectural curricula.

Live Projects are work completed in the borderlands between architectural education and built environment practice; they include design/build work, community-based design, urban advocacy consulting and a host of other forms and models described by the books international group of authors. Because of their position, Live Projects as a vehicle for simultaneously providing teaching and service has the potential to recalibrate the contesting claims that both academia and profession make on architecture.

This collection of essays and case studies consolidates current discussions on theory and learning ambitions, academic best practices, negotiation with licensure and accreditation, and considerations of architectural integrity. It is an invaluable resource for current and future Live Projects advocates whether they aim to move from pedagogy into practice or practice into pedagogy.

Harriet Harriss is a chartered architect and a senior lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, and the founding director of Live Lab: a university situated incubator for architecture business start-ups committed to social innovation. Harriets teaching and research publications explore how architects can enable people to live better lives and how the public or end users can be given a more active role in shaping the spaces and communities in which they live and work.

Lynnette Widder teaches at Columbia University and practises architectural design with aardvarchitecture in New York. From 2006 to 2012, she was Head of the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, and from 1994 to 1998 was an editor of the bilingual quarterly Daidalos. She coauthored Ira Rakatansky: As Modern as Tomorrow (2010).

ARCHITECTURE LIVE PROJECTS

Pedagogy into practice

Edited by Harriet Harriss and Lynnette Widder

First edition published 2014
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Architecture Live Projects : pedagogy into practice / [edited by] Harriet Harriss & Lynnette Widder. First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ArchitectureStudy and teaching (Higher)
2. ArchitectsTraining of.

I. Harriss, Harriet, editor of compilation. II. Widder, Lynnette, editor of compilation.

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Harriet Harriss and Lynnette Widder

PART I
Theories, models, and manifestos

Jane Anderson and Colin Priest

James Benedict Brown

Megan Clark

Lynnette Widder

Harriet Harriss

PART II
The question of assessment

David Gloster

Christine Theodoropoulos

Alan Chandler

Nils Gore

PART III
From education into practice

Alex MacLaren

Sebastian Messer

Beverly A. Sandalack

Barnaby Bennett and Ryan Reynolds

Christian Volkmann

PART IV
Case studies

Michael Hughes

Bruce Wrightsman

Anne Markey

Frank Mruk

Sofia Davies

Simon Warren

Charlie Fisher and Natasha Lofthouse

Christopher Livingston and Shauntel Nelson

Prue Chiles

PART V
Closing thoughts

Daisy Froud and Alfred Zollinger

Mel Dodd

Jane Anderson is co-founder of the online Live Projects Network and also OB1 LIVE, a programme of Live Projects at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, where she leads the undergraduate architecture programme.

Barnaby Bennett is currently completing his PhD on the relationship between temporary architecture and the public in post-quake Christchurch at UTS, Sydney, and is director and founder of the publishing cooperative Freerange Press.

James Benedict Brown is a Lecturer in Architecture at Norwich University of the Arts. His PhD, which developed a pedagogical critique of the Live Project, was completed in 2012 at Queens University Belfast.

Alan Chandler is a Specialist Conservation Architect and founding partner of the practice Arts Lettres Techniques and is Research Leader for Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of East London.

Prue Chiles is an academic in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and is a founding partner of Co-Arch Studio, formerly Prue Chiles Architects. She initiated the Live Project programme at Sheffield in 1998.

Megan Clark is Program Manager for ENGAGE at CCA and Manager of Strategic Partnerships for the Center for Art & Public Life at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California.

Sofia Davies is an Oxford Brookes graduate who specialized in Development and Emergency Practice as part of her Diploma in Architecture. She currently works in a small architecture practice in London.

Mel Dodd is a founding partner and collaborator at MUF Architects and directs the Spatial Practices course at Central St Martins in London.

Charlie Fisher is a former student of the Masters in Architecture, Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University and is currently involved in an open-source Architecture and a WikiHouse research and development initiative.

Daisy Froud is a founder of architecture practice AOC, where she leads their briefbuilding and participatory design work. She is a Tutor and Lecturer in History and Theory on the MArch programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London.