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Editors’ note
We founded EDGEcondition to give a platform to the many voices that work around the core practice of architecture and with us both being architecture educators – Gem as a Senior Lecturer at University of Brighton, Cara with a background in built environment education with the global network of architecture centres – we both know from our different perspectives just how important the teaching of architecture is.
Cai Burton, a young person from Bristol writes an eloquent blog on the Shape My City site which opens with ‘To lots of young people, the world of architecture seems completely alien’. When faced with words like this, the education of children and young people from primary school through to university education around and through the built environment is brought into a pertinent sharp focus: how can we expect the architecture sector to have a future that is populated by a diverse body of practitioners and supported by an understanding public if we are not engaging people in it in formal and informal education?
Cai goes on to define architecture as more than just buildings, ‘It’s about places. It’s about the spaces in between the buildings. It’s about the communities and interactions that take place in them. Architecture is as much about the buildings as it is the people inside’. This issue of EDGEcondition aims to cover those bases, bringing together those involved in architecture and built environment education from across the world and from multifarious standpoints, from primary school education through to the architecture academy, to social practice, taking theory and its application, asking us to reflect on what architecture education has been, what it is now, and what it needs to be.
Our next issue, out at the end of January 2015, is on placemaking. A hot topic, interest in this issue has been keen and positive; if you have an idea for a feature, please do get in contact.
Cara & Gem.
We founded EDGEcondition to give a platform to the many voices that work around the core practice of architecture and with us both being architecture educators – Gem as a Senior Lecturer at University of Brighton, Cara with a background in built environment education with the global network of architecture centres – we both know from our different perspectives just how important the teaching of architecture is.
Cai Burton, a young person from Bristol writes an eloquent blog on the Shape My City site which opens with ‘To lots of young people, the world of architecture seems completely alien’. When faced with words like this, the education of children and young people from primary school through to university education around and through the built environment is brought into a pertinent sharp focus: how can we expect the architecture sector to have a future that is populated by a diverse body of practitioners and supported by an understanding public if we are not engaging people in it in formal and informal education?
Cai goes on to define architecture as more than just buildings, ‘It’s about places. It’s about the spaces in between the buildings. It’s about the communities and interactions that take place in them. Architecture is as much about the buildings as it is the people inside’. This issue of EDGEcondition aims to cover those bases, bringing together those involved in architecture and built environment education from across the world and from multifarious standpoints, from primary school education through to the architecture academy, to social practice, taking theory and its application, asking us to reflect on what architecture education has been, what it is now, and what it needs to be.
Our next issue, out at the end of January 2015, is on placemaking. A hot topic, interest in this issue has been keen and positive; if you have an idea for a feature, please do get in contact.
Cara & Gem.