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  • 1.  Preparing future architects for interdisciplinary design collaboration

    Posted 12-17-2012 10:59 AM
    This message has been cross posted to the following Discussion Forums: Committee on the Environment and Regional and Urban Design Committee .
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    I would like to invite all members of these committees to join in a petition to urge the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) to inspire all schools of architecture. NAAB can influence how future professionals are trained and educated, and in large part this involves whether the studio culture of a school focuses on integral design/interdisciplinary collaboration, or on the more traditional concept of master architect who designs in isolation and later hands over to engineers or contractors to execute her/his designs.

    If you agree, please sign the following petition, and pass on this message to like-minded and concerned colleagues.

    <http://www.change.org/petitions/require-of-graduating-architects-full-competence-to-design-energy-neutral-buildings>


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    Peter Papesch AIA
    Papesch Associates
    Boston MA
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  • 2.  RE:Preparing future architects for interdisciplinary design collaboration

    Posted 12-18-2012 10:55 AM
    I posted this thread and the petition to the AIA Dallas COTE blog. I am aware of one program at the master's level that addresses this specific issue:

    IDBE Masters Programme

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    Sam Watkins AIA
    Corgan Associates
    Dallas TX
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    AIA26 San Diego June 10-13


  • 3.  RE:Preparing future architects for interdisciplinary design collaboration

    Posted 12-19-2012 03:41 PM
    Thanks for this information,  Sam.

    Do any of the other participants know of schools

    a. where Interdisciplinary Design Studios are actually offered, and
    b. which offer certificates or degrees in Interdisciplinary design of the type that IDBE <http://www.idbe.org/> offers?


    Peter Papesch, AIA
    Chair, BSA Sustainability Education Committee
    Former (founding) chair & member of USGBC-MA EDCOM
    Co-chair, Back Bay Green Initiative
    Member of BSA-COTE
    617 267-6598




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    Peter Papesch AIA
    Papesch Associates
    Boston MA
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  • 4.  RE:Preparing future architects for interdisciplinary design collaboration

    Posted 12-19-2012 04:03 PM
    My alma mater, Texas Tech University, offers a 5-hour graduate studio called Collaboration Studio. The course was required for Interior Design and Landscape Architecture majors but not for Architecture students. Every semester, when signing up for your classes, you have the option to take this Collaboration Studio or a Topical Studio (your basic, graduate level studio). Despite there being 2-3 different faculty teaching the course, Collaboration Studio became known as a last resort for architecture students in the case that the other Topical Studios filled up (the amount of students per class were restricted based on preferred faculty-to-student ratios). I couldn't tell you the reason behind this negative stigma, but because of it, Collaboration was one of the least popular studios every semester.

    The course description is as follows:

        "5506. Collaboration Studio (5). An interdisciplinary studio for the design professions addressing the process and skills necessary for collaboration as well as team-development products. (Field Trip Required)"

    Source: TTU Course Catalog

    Hope this helps.

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    Matthew Davis Assoc. AIA
    Good Fulton & Farrell, Inc.
    Dallas TX
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