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The work of critique in architectural education

Abstract
The research reported here is an investigation of instruction and assessment in architectural education. The focus is on the practice of critique, an educational activity in which instructors and professional architects give students feedback on their finished projects. Taking an ethnomethodologically informed approach, the interests of the thesis revolve around questions of how critique is done as an occasioned instructional practice. The empirical material consists of video recordings of critique sessions at a Swedish school of architecture. The core of the thesis consists of four empirical studies. Study 1 deals with issues of professional vision and the ways in which the graphical surface of the presentation is seen. Study 2 addresses the significance of intentions in the setting. The study examines how the relation between students’ stated intentions and the presented designs is treated by participants. Study 3 deals with the use of precedents and references, analyzing how critics respond to students’ ways of handling intertextual aspects of architectural design. Study 4 focuses on the material and spatial set-up of critique—the differing affordances of digital slideshows and posters for presentation and discussion. Critique is found to be a site where architectural proposals are treated for the purposes of instruction as provisional and improvable, and where their significances are detailed in exhibitions of architectural reasoning and judgment. Such exhibiting involves identifying and elaborating on problems and qualities, and articulating values that are visible in the envisaged buildings and their graphical representations. These interpretations may be juxtaposed with the expressed intentions of students, as these appear in verbal presentations or in textual accounts. Their interrelations are inspected and discrepancies are noted and discussed. On the basis of the analyses in the thesis, the function of critique is argued to centre on the juxtaposition of student-produced objects with professional competences for seeing, articulating, assessing, and contextualizing these objects. In organizing the educational program around cycles of production and critique, architecture is provided with a powerful means through which design competences, and the assessment practices that lie at their core, can be made massively present within, and constitutive of, the developmental processes through which students acquire the intellectual, aesthetic, and discursive repertoires necessary for competent architectural work.
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
University
Göteborgs universitet. Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten
University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Education
Institution
Department of Education, Communication and Learning ; Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande
Disputation
Tid: 2010-09-10 kl 13:15, Plats: Pedagogen - Hus A, Kjell Härnqvistsalen
Date of defence
2010-09-10
E-mail
gustav.lymer@ped.gu.se
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/22775
Collections
  • Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande
  • Doctoral Theses from University of Gothenburg / Doktorsavhandlingar från Göteborgs universitet
  • Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences
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Date
2010
Author
Lymer, Gustav
Keywords
architecture
education
interaction
instruction
ethnomethodology
video analysis
Publication type
Doctoral thesis
ISBN
978-91-7346-688-2
Series/Report no.
Göteborg studies in educational sciences
298
Language
eng
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