Architecture Pedagogy for Tomorrow: Speculative Practices in Design Studios

Abstract

Architecture holds a long-standing history, encompassing language, typology, scale,
materiality and meaning, and evolving across geographies and timelines. The parameters
shaping the built world are redefined with every shift in the social-political, cultural,
technological and environmental realities. Architectural practice is at the cusp of operating
beyond the built environment. With this continuous shift in practice, architectural education
has an important role in shaping architects as future-ready. The time demands that architecture
education embrace this ambiguity. The fluid nature of the future of architectural practice can
be answered by speculative pedagogical approaches to ensure that an imaginative, iterative
and experimental process of thinking and evolving a design intent is cultivated. This paper
assesses the studio exercises from architectural studios conducted by the author within a
theoretical framework and analyses the learning outcomes in this context.