Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: Objects on display: learning through looking --
1 From wooden blocks to Scottish Tartans. Dom Hans van der Laan's reconciliation of rational patterns and spatial experience --
2 A walking exhibit: Alfons Hoppenbrouwers's visual pedagogy --
3 Clashing perspectives: Joseph Rykwert's object lesson at the Ulm school of design --
4 Pancho's passages: framing transitional objects for decolonial education in 1980s South Africa --
PART II: Hands-on: learning through manual work --
5 Planning problems: data graphics in the education of architects and planners at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 1940s --
6 The Cambridge collage: Dalibor Vesely, phenomenology, and architectural design method --
7 Little living labs: 1970s student design-build projects and the objects of experimental lifestyles -- PART III: Bodies in space: synesthetic learning --
8 The body as an ultimate form of architecture: global tools body workshops --
9 Parallel narratives of disciplinary disruption: the bush campus as design and pedagogical concept --
10 Revisiting environmental learning: cities, issues and bodies --
PART IV: Learning by technologies: audio-visual transmissions --
11 In the eye of the projector: Wölfflin, slides and architecture in postwar America --
12 Wireless architecture: Robert Cummings's early radio broadcasts --
13 The captive lecturer --
Index --

"What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century? And, did new teaching techniques and tools foster pedagogical, institutional and even cultural renewal? Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring the complex processes that transformed architecture's pedagogies in the 20th century. The last decade has seen a substantial increase in interest in the history of architectural education. This book widens the geographical scope beyond local school histories and sets out to discover the very distinct materialities and technologies of schooling as active agents in the making of architectural schools. Architectural Education Through Materiality argues that knowledge transmission cannot be reduced to 'software', the relatively easily detectable ideas in course notes and handbooks, but also has to be studied in close relation to the 'hardware' of, for instance, wall pictures, textiles, campus designs, slide projectors and even bodies. Presenting illustrated case studies of works by architects, educators and theorists including Dalibor Vesely, Dom Hans van der Laan, Alessandro Mendini, Heinrich Wölfflin, Alfons Hoppenbrouwers, Joseph Rykwert, Pancho Guedes and Robert Cummings, and, focusing on student-led educational initiatives in Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, the book will inspire students, educators and professionals with an interest in the many ways architectural knowledge is produced and taught"--