Architectural Education

“The future quality of our built enviroment will be determined by the children of today, who will be the clients,consumers and decision- makers of tomorrow.Their ability to make sound, informed decisions will depend on the education they receive. Providing this education is  a matter of partnerships between architects and teachers in collaboration with schools, parents, education authorities and goverment”.
UIA Built enviroment education.

ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Architectural education supports children in seeing, critically analysing and evaluating their built enviroment.

Architectural culture is a resource for enriching approaches to learning and for promoting creative and critical thinking.
CHILD FOCUSED AIMS

To broader children ´s experience of the built enviroment.

To promote enjoyment and explotation of the built enviroment

To promote the development and use of creative skills and processes.

To support children´s identification with the enviroment and society.

To support children in experiencing the richness of cultural diversity.
EDUCATIONAL FOCUS

To support the use of architectural education in the school curriculum, as a vehicle for multidisciplinary learning.

To encourage creativity and critical thinking.

To support the use of diversity to learning.

To support architectual education in informal education.
ETHICAL  ISSUES

Respect the ideas and imagination of children and young people.

Place children and young people at the centre of the process.

Promote social enviroment and ecological sustainability.