Deep Diving in Search of Ecological Expertise

Following Vitruvius’s pedagogy, expertise in a prescribed set of disciplines is a prerequisite for the title “Architect.” Far from this, a contemporary architectural pedagogy requiring only cursory engagement with satellite ‘allied’ fields outsources the practitioner’s capacity to perform ecologically to several disassociated silos. Vitruvius’s pedagogy is practically unachievable, but he offers an insight into one of its benefits, namely that the deep study of other disciplines exercises the architect’s skills in adopting trans-disciplinary knowledge. An extra-disciplinary ‘deep dive’ trains the architect in assimilating new vocabularies and methodologies to be applied in the pursuit of ecological design.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.88

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0