Architecture, Energy and Education. Case Studies in the Evaluation of the Teaching Passive Design in Architecture Workbook Series

摘要

The research, design, and curricular explorations reported herein demonstrate a wide range of approaches to teaching energy in design. However, the work is not primarily a demonstration of energy education. It is an evaluation of architectural education approaches. The placement of value on how one teaches and what one chooses to teach is at the core of all academic experience. The nine schools which have participated in this program have been reflecting rigorously on the value of their teaching approaches, resource materials, and fundamental assumptions for two years. The result is perhaps most significant for what it illustrates about how we come to put value on the teaching of architecture. Energy, in this case, is the vehicle through which we have attempted to better understand architectural education. Energy, alone, is not the subject of this text. (ERA citation 11:032067)