The Learning Journey. Documentation of the process of designing architectural concepts

How to empower architectural students and prepare them for a work life where they potentially can take influence? And engage themselves in formulating relevant and beautiful architectural answers to issues of society? This book document and reflects a design process for a conceptual architectural design of a secondary school in Germany – made according to a Scandinavian pedagogical principle. And pose possible answers to the question by showing teaching examples and tasks of the Learning Journey of the students. The Scandinavian teaching approach systematically foster a safe non-competitive atmosphere by showing trust, caring for each other and allowing for failure. This significantly improved the Studio Environment. It is made with master students of architecture during a three-semester visiting professorship of the Sto-Foundation at the Technical University of Munich named: “A View North - Changing Architectural Practice”. The aim of the professorship was to introduce a Scandinavian perspective in the teaching culture at a German university, focusing on issues such as methods in design practice, gender as well as opening up for new business fields in architecture.     «

How to empower architectural students and prepare them for a work life where they potentially can take influence? And engage themselves in formulating relevant and beautiful architectural answers to issues of society? This book document and reflects a design process for a conceptual architectural design of a secondary school in Germany – made according to a Scandinavian pedagogical principle. And pose possible answers to the question by showing teaching examples and tasks of the Learning...     »