Preservation, Provocation, and Pedagogy $ Preservation as Provocation: Rethinking Saarinen's Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, Michigan ACSA Student Competition, 2006-2007

摘要

Competitions intended for architecture students, like many of those entered by professionals, often lack a conceptual imperative. They may address a particular material, technology, building type, or site, but they are intentionally one size fits all, suitable for framing within a broad range of cur-ricular situations. Faculty are free to enhance the specified program with their own brief, process project development through their own pedagogy, or encourage their students' initiative through additional readings, case studies, or theoretical constructs. Preservation as Provocation: Rethinking Saarinen's Cranbrook Academy of Art took the opposite approach, using the competition as a means to frame a new area of architectural concern, "preservation design" with a new pedagogical imperative: to inject preservation directly into the architectural studio environment.