Date: Thursday 16th October 2019

Venue: G04a

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

This paper gives an overview over my current research into the history of architectural education in the United Kingdom. It presents three outputs which each tackle this broader topic from a specific angle. The first is a book about the Architectural Association in the postwar period, which is based on my doctoral thesis and will be published in June 2020; the second is an article about the origins of the seminal Oxford Conference within the networks of 1930s student activism, which appeared recently in the Journal of Architecture; and the third is the paper that I am currently working on, which explores the idea of a science-based approach to architectural education. All three outputs are heavily archive-driven and share a common interest in the origins of pedagogical ideas and the agents and networks through which such ideas have come to shape architectural education. The underlying assumption is that the state of education by necessity reflects the state of the profession itself. It therefore offers a unique lens through which to investigate and illuminate broader currents in architectural history.