Routledge Focus on Design Pedagogy
About the Book Series
The Routledge Focus on Design Pedagogy series provides the reader with the latest scholarship for instructors who educate designers. The series publishes research from across the globe and covers areas as diverse as beginning design and foundational design, architecture, product design, interior design, fashion design, landscape architecture, urban design, and architectural conservation and historic preservation. By making these studies available to the worldwide academic community, the series aims to promote quality design education.
Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum: Project-Based Learning
1st Edition
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By William Platz
October 22, 2025
Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum: Project-Based Learning will renew the critical attention paid to projects in the art & design curriculum and rigorously consider impacts on student experience. How exactly do we conceive of ‘projects’ in the context of a ...
Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention
1st Edition
By Nathaniel Coleman
March 25, 2025
Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. As a corrective, Recoding Architecture Pedagogy: Insurgency and Invention asserts disciplinary ...
Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity
1st Edition
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By Lina Ahmad, Marco Sosa
January 22, 2025
Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment. Through diverse international case studies, the book emphasizes the importance of creative approaches, community ...
Serving the Marginalized through Design Education
1st Edition
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By Steven B. Webber
July 02, 2024
Design education and practice are inherently social from process to implementation. This book explores the transformation in design education, as educators prepare their students to address complex social design problems for all people in society. This seven-chapter volume provides the reader with ...
Cultural Awareness in Teaching Art and Design
1st Edition
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By Kirsty Macari
June 10, 2024
Cultural Awareness in Teaching Art and Design addresses an emerging area of development in contemporary pedagogy, the fostering of cultural awareness and sensitivity in the designers of tomorrow. By offering new and unique examples of how to better educate students around issues of cultural ...
Experiential Learning in Architectural Education: Design-build and Live Projects
1st Edition
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By Burak Pak, Aurelie De Smet
May 27, 2024
This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, civic and governmental organizations engaged in socio-spatial ...
Understanding Site in Design Pedagogy
1st Edition
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By Sean Burns, Matthew Wilson
May 27, 2024
This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture, interior design, urban planning, and historical and cultural studies. The authors use the term site to connote a series of complex, established, or pre-existing conditions – a...
Teaching Architecture(s) in the Post-Covid Era: The New Age of Digital Design
1st Edition
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By Sadiyah Geyer
May 24, 2024
In the post-COVID era, understanding the profound impact of digital technologies on design pedagogy is crucial. This book delves into experimental design education, showcasing projects utilising technology to transform creative and analytical processes. Emphasising the potential for digital-era ...
Space and Language in Architectural Education: Catalysts and Tensions
1st Edition
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By Kasia Nawratek
January 29, 2024
Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration. The realm of language, although not considered to be architects’ natural environment, opens opportunities to further stretch and expand the architectural imagination and the set of ...
Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy: Accommodating an Uncertain Future
1st Edition
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By Laura Sanderson, Sally Stone
January 09, 2023
Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are helping to bridge the gap between the institutional setting and working practice. It demonstrates how teaching and learning can, and should, be directed towards tackling the real-world ...
Progressive Studio Pedagogy: Examples from Architecture and Allied Design Fields
1st Edition
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By Charlie Smith
January 09, 2023
Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Through a series of case studies, this book presents innovative...