Made in Architecture: Education as collaborative practice

摘要

During the academic year 2014/15 unit UG_3 at the Bartlett School of Architecture embarked on an innovative teaching programme. Fourteen undergraduate students responded to a real brief, worked with a real client, and designed and built a series of structures on a real site in central London. The project continues the emerging tradition of the live project where architectural educators seek to break out of the introvert nature of the university teaching environment to involve their students in real world challenges. Live projects make an interesting contribution to a very current debate about the future of architectural education. UG_3's project also questions the role of the professional architect, critically contributing to the evolution of architectural practice into a discipline that fosters community cohesion.