What About the First One-Hundred Days at a Community College Architecture Program?

Where do we start as future architects? Are we fascinated by the social impact of our design solutions? Are we intrigued with the possibilities of materials and their structural potential? Are we so fond of problem solving that anything read in English literature or studied in Biology spurs our creativity? Perhaps there is no single start to our paths. One foundation could be at the community college architectural program [CCAP]. The first hundred days for an architecture student can be magical but alarming. There is much to learn. How do we merge the marching with imagination through academics and then, the smacking into the reality of the workplace? Based on data collected from over 120 CCAPs, this proposal offers the teaching within the community college architecture program as an alternate “Beginning Design Pedagogy.” First, it will address offering a wide range of architectural courses in the first semester to beginning architectural students. Second, it will address the ethical responsibility of educators to provide future architects of the 21st century with appropriate skills for the 21st century profession. Lastly, it will address the need to adapt to the learning style of members of the current students.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.87

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9