Architectural Education at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam NL Investigation of Architectural Education in the Netherlands - Part I

摘要

This paper examines the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (AvBA) and the renewal process of its educational program, as well as setting the century-long background to these changes in perspective. AvBA provides an education to a limited number of students by adhering to its trademark notion of educating architects as independent thinkers and tapping the pedagogical skills of a large number of professionals in architecture and related fields. The case of AvBA is worthy of attention as proof that a systematic program of revision, gradually implemented by and for architects on the part of an organization aware of the dynamics of social change, can succeed. The author′s aim is to dissect an acknowledged instance of excellence in keeping with today′s fully internationalized context of architectural education. In reviewing and assessing the experience of AvBA, he isolates seven points as the chief factors of its favorable outcome.