Inchoate an experiment in architectural education

• Main Author: Angelil, Marc M (Author)
• Corporate Author: Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule Zurich
• Other Authors: Uziyel, Liat
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) 2003
• Subjects: Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule Zurich. > Curricula > Departement Architektur; Schools of architecture > Zurich > Switzerland; Architecture > Study and teaching > Switzerland > Zurich
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• Physical Description: 565 pages illustrations (chiefly colour) 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 3952271802

Teaching is about initiating excitement. It entails the deployment of pleasure, the build-up of passion, and the instigation of obsession vis- -vis a particular field of interest, the grounds on which the discipline operates, and its intellectual and material practices. Responsible teaching also inevitably involves a contradictory bias both in favor of as well as against the discipline at hand, promoting an understanding of its principles while simultaneously questioning the bases on which it stands. An affirmative activity, teaching also introduces a distancing from the very subject matter it promotes. Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education follows a trend among universities and technical colleges to publish educational findings from within their institution. Inchoate considers the educational process, looking primarily at the first year design course, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, or ETH, in Zurich. Guest lectures transcribed in the book come from Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Gregg Lynn, MVRDV, and others.