Architectural Design and Construction Education

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ENHSA-EAAE Architectural Design Teachers' and Construction Teachers' Networks
Architectural Design
and Construction Education
Experimentation towards Integration
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ENHSA-EAAE Architectural Design Teachers' and Construction Teachers' Networks
Architectural Design and Construction Education
Experimentation towards Integration
Transactions on Architectural Education No 45
Editors
Constantin Spiridonidis
Maria Voyatzaki
Transcription and speech adaptation: Sara Young
Cover design: Emmanouil Zaroukas
Layout design: Dimitris Apostolidis
Printed by: Art Of Text SA, Thessaloniki, Greece
ISBN 978-2-930301-2-6
Copyright © 2009 by the authors and the EAAE
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, pho-
toprint, microfilm or by any other means without written permission from the pub-
lisher.
Despite the attempt to transcribe with accuracy the debates from the workshop, the
editors wish to apologise in advance for any inaccuracies of the interventions of indi-
viduals that could be attributed to the quality of recording.
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List of contents
Experimentations towards Integration:
An attempt to gather good-practice examples
Constantin Spiridonidis, Maria Voyatzaki ............................................................................................................................. 9
Keynotes
Marco Verde Eng,.March.|.[P]a.|.Hyperbody.TU.Delft .................................................................................................... 1
Holger Kehne, Eva Castro, Ulla Hell Plasma.studio,.London/Bolzano ......................................... 29
Session 1
(Re)searching Integration
Karl Christiansen, Anders Gammelgaard Nielsen Denmark ................................................................. 3
Channa Vithana United.Kingdom .............................................................................................................................................................. 1
Dieter Geissbühler Switzerland .................................................................................................................................................................. 61
Christian Drevet France ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Odysseas Kontovourkis, Demetris Economides Cyprus ............................................................................... 77
Daniel Sudhershan Ireland .................................................................................................................................................................................. 89
Session 2.1
Integration as a teaching practice
Maria Arquero, Emilio Ontiveros USA ........................................................................................................................................... 99
Sandy De Bruycker Denmark ........................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Alessandra Swiny, Yiorgos Hadjichristou Cyprus .................................................................................................... 11
Charles Hueber, Gus Tielens The.Nederlands ...................................................................................................................... 123
Raquel Rapaport, Rosa Frances Israel ............................................................................................................................................. 129
S. Müjdem Vural Turkey ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Dimitris Issaias, Miltiadis Tzitzas Greece .................................................................................................................................. 13
Marios C. Phocas, Aimilios Michael Cyprus .......................................................................................................................... 17
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Session 2.2
Integration as an education issue
Maria Hadjisoteriou, Paris Philippou, Angela Petrou Cyprus ............................................................ 171
Tilo Einert Scotland ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 183
Adriano Magliocco Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 189
Sandra Costa Santos, Daniel P. Sudhershan Spain,.Ireland ....................................................................... 199
Avraham Mosseri Israel .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 209
Tiago Andrade Santos Portugal .................................................................................................................................................................. 217
Rossana Raiteri Italy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Ján Ilkovič, Ľubica Ilkovičová Slovakia ........................................................................................................................................... 239
Przemysław Stobiecki, Waldemar Bober, Romuald Tarczewski,
Elżbieta Trocka-Leszczyńska, Bogusław Wowrzeczka Poland .......................................................... 27
Nina Juzwa, Szymon Rendchen Poland ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Session 3.1
Views on integration
Ole Vanggaard, Ola Wedebrunn Denmark ............................................................................................................................. 261
Jerzy Gorski Poland ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 267
Maria De Santis Italy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 281
Kyriaki Oudatzi, Niki Manou Greece ................................................................................................................................................. 293
Maria Vrontissi Greece ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 303
Session 3.2
Integration of environmental issues
Vivienne Brophy Ireland ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 317
Monica Cannaviello, Giuliana Lauro Italy ................................................................................................................................ 32
Eleni Alexandrou, Vassilis Tsouras Greece ............................................................................................................................. 331
Paola Marrone, Valeria Zacchei Italy ............................................................................................................................................... 33
Maria Isabella Amirante, Caterina Frettoloso Italy ................................................................................................ 33
Nikos Papamanolis Greece ................................................................................................................................................................................. 363
Çiğdem Polatoğlu, Çiğdem Canbay Turkey .......................................................................................................................... 369
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Antonio Bosco, Francesca Muzzillo Italy ................................................................................................................................... 379
Rossella Franchino Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 38
Giovanna Franco Italy ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Renata Valente Italy ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 03
Antonella Violano Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Susanna Fülöp Hungary ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 27
Session 4.1
Integrating the teaching of structures
Marios C. Phocas, Tonia Sophocleous Cyprus .................................................................................................................. 3
Rosa Frances Israel .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 
Denis Zastavni Belgium ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 69
Herman Neuckermans, Hans De Petter, Piet Stevens, Staf Roels Belgium ................. 79
Laurens Luyten Belgium ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 91
Markella Menikou, Adonis Cleanthous Cyprus ............................................................................................................. 99
Session 4.2
Experimenting with integration
Thierry Berlemont Belgium ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Vicente Blasco García, Angeles Mas Tomás Spain .................................................................................................... 29
Konstantinos Karadimas Greece .............................................................................................................................................................. 39
Gkouzkounis Anastasios, Voyatzaki Maria, Tzekakis Emmanuel Greece .................... 9
Ebru Erdönmez Turkey ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Antonia Campanella, Federico Foce, Luigi Gambarotta Italy ............................................................ 61
Almula Köksal Turkey .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
Päivi Väisänen Finland ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Closing Session
Discussion .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
List of participants ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 607
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Experimentations towards Integration:
An attempt to gather good-practice examples
Architecture as manifestation of our culture in space emerges through a creative syn-
ergy of artistic expertise, technical intelligence and scientific knowledge guiding the
act of designing buildings and structures. The process of design through which archi-
tectural forms are produced is primarily driven by values, principles, ethics and objec-
tives directing the creative manipulation of mass, space, volumes, materials, textures,
light and pragmatic elements such as cost, construction techniques and technology,
in order to achieve an aesthetic, functional and meaningful end.
Architects are involved in the creation of the built environment by translating into
built forms and spatial organisations the socially and culturally defined demands of
persons, groups or bodies. As agents who transform through the architectural design
practice the citizens' needs into designed proposals of physical space to be construct-
ed, architects should be able to operate within a variety of client, architect, manage-
ment and builder relationships in an effective and professional way, within the con-
straints imposed by the building and construction industry, the project budget and
the brief. This is why architects must possess a systematic and broad body of knowl-
edge, skills, and theory developed through education, graduate and post-graduate
training, and experience. Architectural education should be structured to assure cli-
ents that architects are engaged to perform professional services, meeting acceptable
standards and enabling proper performance of these services.
It is more than 2 years that architectural education worldwide experiences a progres-
sively growing modularization of the studies offered by schools of architecture. As the
number of offered modules is growing, the links between them become increasingly
weak and unable to assure continuity in the taught contents. The fragmentation of
the teaching contents renders architectural knowledge to be offered a set of discon-
nected smaller entities with no clear directions for students to make the necessary
connections in their effort to develop an understanding of the wholeness of architec-
ture and thereafter to form a competent profile for practising architecture. The central
question that this workshop raises is if contemporary architectural educators as well
as the educational system as a whole have developed the necessary teaching meth-
ods, techniques and tools for integrating the fragmented and progressively isolated
taught parts into a complete and coherent body of knowledge.
In the last few years we are experiencing significant changes in all aspects of contem-
porary architectural practice accompanied by new approaches in architectural theory
and contemplation. All these changes in the way we understand, think and create ar-
chitecture run parallel with the extremely fast development of advanced information
technologies and digital tools supporting architectural design in the process of gen-
eration, representation and simulation of architectural forms. In parallel, the construc-
tion industry, responds to the new orientations of the formal and technical aspects of
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