1st Edition
Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education
This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.
Annotated case studies, both from academic institutions and from professional practices, provide examples of interdisciplinary engagement in creative design work, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of this approach. Cases are from a diverse selection of international collaborators, featuring projects from the United States, Australia, Mexico, Germany, and Italy, and cover a range of project types and scales. Chapters by invited experts offer speculations on current and future models, situating examples within the broader context, and encouraging dialogue between practice and pedagogy. The collection of voices in this book offers critical and provocative lenses, learning from history while forging inventive and creative roles for the architect as practitioner, entrepreneur, strategist, choreographer, activist, facilitator, leader, and teacher.
Interdisciplinary Design Thinking provides insights into the potential of interdisciplinary engagement at the level of foundational undergraduate education, making it ideal for faculty in architecture schools. It will also be of interest to design professionals concerned with interdisciplinary collaboration and how to incorporate similar efforts in their own practices.
PART 0
Introduction
1. Setting the Table
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
PART I
Expanding Disciplinary Fields: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in the Academy
2. Re-thinking Architecture Education
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
Provocations
3. Questioning "Best" Practices in Architectural Education
Renée Cheng
4. From Disciplinary Fields to Interdisciplinary Challenges: Shifting the Focus of Architectural Education
Iñaki Alday
5. Integrative Technologies in Architecture: Toward an Interdisciplinary and Future-Proof Research Culture
Achim Menges
Case Studies from the Academy
6. Which Comes First?
Renee Chow
7. Interdisciplinary Transition
Erika Zekos
8. The Yamuna River Project: Interdisciplinarity across and beyond the Fields of the Built Environment in Architectural Education
Iñaki Alday and Pankaj Vir Gupta
9. Building Innovation at Arizona State University
Philip Horton and Marc Neveu
10. Data Augmented Design Intelligence: Enabling Interdisciplinarity
Matthias (Hank) Haeusler and Nicole Gardner
11. Out of Scope: How Megaliths Challenge Architecture’s Role
Brandon Clifford
12. Perform: Making a Case for Expanded Structural Dialogues in Architecture Education
Julian Palacio
13. Aqueous Landscapes: Teaching and Learning in the Intertidal Zone in Second Year Architectural Design Studio
Ainslie Murray
14. Building Beloved Community through the University of Washington’s Nehemiah Interdisciplinary Studio
Rachel Berney, Branden Born, and Donald King
15. Integrated Studio: Trade-offs as a Mechanism for Collaboration
Ann Marie Borys and Carrie Sturts Dossick
16. The Story of a Semi-Scientist
Lydia Kallipoliti
PART II
Integrating Disciplines: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in Practice
17. Learning from Practice – Or Practice Learning from Education
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
Provocation 01
18. Meandering Transdisciplinary Lands
Billie Faircloth
Case Studies from Practice
19. Crosscoding Cultures: Design and Data across Disciplines
Andrew Witt
20. The Architectural Incongruities between Speculation and Practice
Max Kuo
21. Practice beyond the Digital Bubble
Maya Alam
22. The Unexpected Solution: How Multidisciplinary Enriches the Design Process
Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger
23. Learning by Doing
Rozana Montiel
Provocation 02
24. Pedagogical Practices
Nader Tehrani
PART III
Experimenting in Interdisciplinarity: Speculations across Past, Current, and Future Models in the Academy and Practice
25. Shameless Experimentation: Making Space for Interdisciplinary Exchange
Gretchen Wilkins
26. Expanding Interdisciplinary Fields: Reflections on the Science of Design
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
27. Interdisciplinary Dialogues: What are the Boundaries of Design (or Design as a Mode of Inquiry)
J. Meejin Yoon
28. Walking the Boundaries of the Built Environment
Alan Organschi
Biography
Julie Ju-Youn Kim, AIA is an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture, where she founded and currently directs the Flourishing Communities Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research and design lab. Incorporating goals of equity and inclusion in scholarship and design pedagogy, Julie received the 2023 AIA Georgia Educator of the Year and the 2023 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, for connecting the academy and architectural practice by creating replicable models of engagement to expand equity through access. With support from the New Venture Fund/Public Interest Technology-University Network and Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, Julie’s teaching and research leverages data-driven and quantitative methodologies to solving social and cultural problems in the built environment. Julie is a licensed architect whose publications link her leadership and teaching in pursuit of interdisciplinarity in architecture education, research, and practice. She holds a M. Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BA from Wellesley College.
