Approaching Architecture by Miguel Guitart - 9781032049953

Taylor & Francis

Approaching ArchitectureThree Fields, One Discipline\nAuthor(s): Miguel Guitart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032049953, 978-1032049953\nSynopsis\nThe study of the architectural discipline suffers from an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, 18 architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice. This book argues that the totality of activities encompassed by the architectural profession can be best fulfilled when reconsidering the critical interactions between these three fields in the everyday exercise of the profession. \n\nSplit into three parts, \""Architecture as Research,\"" Architecture as Pedagogy,\"" and \""Architecture as Practice,\"" each section focuses on one of these three dimensions while establishing continuity with th.