Scholar Architect 2022
Scholar Architect 2022
Contributor(s): Anda-Ioana Sfinteş (Editor), Florina Tufescu (Translator)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: academic–professional dialogue; innovative approaches; contemporary challenges; digital dissemination; public accessibility;
Summary/Abstract: Within the framework of the Scholar Architect 2022 project, diverse materials have been presented and published, with many of these being also accessible to a broad audience. This openness is meant to bring closer the academic and professional discourses that promote innovative, experimental approaches and respond in an up-to-date manner to the needs and challenges raised by contemporary society. Webinars and podcasts are accessible via the Youtube channel (the Scholar Architect channel), virtual exhibitions can be viewed on the University webpage dedicated to the project (www.uauim. ro/cercetare/scholarh-2022) and all of these items are also visible on the Facebook page (www. facebook.com/scholarhuauim).
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-606-638-300-4
- Page Count: 177
- Publication Year: 2023
- Language: English
Specificity, particularities and trends in tertiary architectural education. The design studio
Specificity, particularities and trends in tertiary architectural education. The design studio
(Specificity, particularities and trends in tertiary architectural education. The design studio)
- Author(s):Magdalena Stănculescu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:1-27
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:student motivation; academic environment; professional achievement; pedagogical change; future student needs;
- Summary/Abstract:Student motivation is that dimension whose true value needs to be recognised in order for it to be taken into consideration in research on the academic educational environment and for its explicit role to be acknowledged in the success of university studies as well as in the attainment of a high level of competence and professional achievement. Prompted by these initial considerations, we began the study with the aims of understanding the need for change in the teachers’ visions and attitudes and of explaining the potential future needs of the students currently embarked on architectural studies.
Re(in)novating the studio workspace to improve the quality of teaching
Re(in)novating the studio workspace to improve the quality of teaching
(Re(in)novating the studio workspace to improve the quality of teaching)
- Author(s):Magdalena Stănculescu, Alexandru Brătescu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:29-41
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:participatory methods; performance observation; studio environment; spatial conditioning; activity analysis;
- Summary/Abstract:The work environment, in this case the studio space, was explored [during a workshop which took place between 26 and 30 September 2022 within the framework of the Scholar Architect 2022 project] via participatory methods, via performance and direct observation of specific activities and of the way in which they are conditioned by and condition the adjacent space in their turn.
Digital craft in the architectural studio
Digital craft in the architectural studio
(Digital craft in the architectural studio)
- Author(s):Ana Daniela Anton, Ionuț Anton
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:43-53
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:digital fabrication; 3D printing; architectural education; critical pedagogy; technological skills;
- Summary/Abstract:This chapter deals with how digital fabrication tools and more specifically 3D printing can be included into the architectural educational process so as to complete the studio activity. (…) We have researched how the pedagogical process can incorporate the new digital tools and tested methods of introducing students to new technologies from a critical perspective, thus enabling them to acquire new abilities that will be useful in their future architectural practice.
Architecture. Critical thinking
Architecture. Critical thinking
(Architecture. Critical thinking)
- Author(s):Adrian Moleavin, Sergiu Catalin Petrea, Gheorghe Clitan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:55-65
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:critical thinking; educational objectives; intellectual formation; analytical capacity; democratic citizenship;
- Summary/Abstract:Critical thinking has been, for over a century, a widely accepted educational objective, which has revolutionised the teaching of university and school students regarding how to approach their intellectual formation in order to guarantee professional success, the appropriate capacity of analysis and argumentation and, from a broader perspective, the premises of exercising democratic citizenship.
Portfolio design: an exercise in self-presentation and representation
Portfolio design: an exercise in self-presentation and representation
(Portfolio design: an exercise in self-presentation and representation)
- Author(s):Oana Anca Abălaru Obancea, Claudia-Gabriela Pipoș-Lupu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:67-85
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:creative exploration; academic–professional knowledge; self‑evaluation; skills development; architectural projects;
- Summary/Abstract:Conceived as a creative exploration of the acquired academic and professional knowledge in multiple areas related to architecture, the workshop [whose results are presented in this chapter] took the form of a self-evaluation and summarising exercise of the abilities and skills gained over time, graphically illustrated through architectural projects.
Introduction to urban planning: the structure of a modular course
Introduction to urban planning: the structure of a modular course
(Introduction to urban planning: the structure of a modular course)
- Author(s):Andrei Mitrea, Dana Milea
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:87-93
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:urban planning theory; critical perspective; introductory education; architectural curriculum; public understanding;
- Summary/Abstract:The course presents introductory information on the theory and practice of urban planning from a critical perspective. It is thus aimed at a public that is only slightly or not at all familiar with urban planning.
Key concepts in urban planning
Key concepts in urban planning
(Key concepts in urban planning)
- Author(s):Andrei Mitrea, Dana Milea
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture
- Page Range:95-107
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:urban planning concepts; problem definition; analytical methods; diagrammatic synthesis; diagnostic framework;
- Summary/Abstract:This chapter defines, explains and guides towards bibliographies concerning the key concepts in urban planning of: problem, analysis, diagram, synthesis and diagnosis.
The urban planning basis of projects
The urban planning basis of projects
(The urban planning basis of projects)
- Author(s):Andrei Mitrea, Dana Milea
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Higher Education
- Page Range:109-121
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:urban fabric; community interaction; built environment; spatial functioning; site analysis;
- Summary/Abstract:Regardless of the type of architectural project we work on, it is useful to understand the functioning of the urban fabric of the studied site and its surroundings, focusing mainly on how communities interact with the built environment they use.
Journal of architectural anthropology. Ten ideas
Journal of architectural anthropology. Ten ideas
(Journal of architectural anthropology. Ten ideas)
- Author(s):Anda-Ioana Sfinteş, Ruxandra Păduraru
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture
- Page Range:123-165
- No. of Pages:43
- Keywords:architecture–society interaction; built environment; technological mediation; research exploration; design interventions
- Summary/Abstract:The ten journal entries treat a variety of issues, some tangential, others of a completely different nature, thus demonstrating that the way in which architecture and social reality influence each other, both in the physical and in the virtual or technologically transformed environment, is an inexhaustible resource of subjects to be debated, understood and explored in research, in interventions of any kind in the built space, in design or implementation.
