October 16, 2019 School of Architecture Receives National AIA Innovation Award
The at 快活视频, College of Architecture and Design. Most often awarded to architecture firms, the Innovation Award recognizes technologies and practices of architects and designers related to buildings or research in practice or academia.
The award recognizes the overhaul of the school鈥檚 curriculum that leads to a Bachelor of Architecture degree. This new educational paradigm could serve as a model for schools across the country as it integrates the content of stand-alone courses focused on technology into the design studio experience. This innovative, interrelated curriculum leverages and expands the college鈥檚 digital agenda and leads to a broader and more applicable design education.
鈥淥ur faculty created a new model for integrating building technology with design studio in ways that both anticipate the realities of integrated practice and meet design students where they are,鈥 said Jason Young, director of the UT School of Architecture. 鈥淭he new model uses team-taught, project-based modules to enliven and sustain聽content that has long lacked meaningful reinforcement in the studio. We鈥檝e changed how and therefore why we teach building technology for the benefit of our students.鈥
The former model of stand-alone, lecture-based courses for topics such as structures, materials and methods, and environmental systems was abandoned in favor of a series of project-based modules that are taught with sequential and varying levels of overlap with the studio curriculum in the second, third and fourth years of the Bachelor of Architecture curriculum. The overhauled curriculum leads students to be able to reflect technology in their studio designs, which means a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of design.
More than a dozen faculty members collaborated on the year-long project that eliminates silos, reinforces the college鈥檚 creative culture, recognizes diversity in faculty expertise, invents new teaching platforms, elevates experimentation in the design studios and increases collaboration across the school and college.
Congratulations to these faculty:
- Katherine Ambroziak
- Marleen Davis
- Mark Dekay
- Hansjoerg Goeritz
- Maged Guerguis
- Tracy Moir-McClean
- William Miller
- Marshall Prado
- James Rose
- Ted Shelton
- Kevin Stevens
- Tricia Stuth
- Jason Young
鈥淭his is a complete overhaul of a university curriculum that achieved buy in from the entire faculty, created partnerships between classes and offered multiple perspectives in classes,鈥 stated an award jury member.
The jury for the 2019 AIA Innovation Award consisted of professionals representing software, higher education, engineering, management, design and construction.
In all, six entities were recognized with the 2019 Innovation Award. The School of Architecture is the only educational institution to receive the award in the past four years.
Learn more about the School of Architecture at archdesign.utk.edu/schools/school-of-architecture/.聽 Learn more about the UT College of Architecture and Design at archdesign.utk.edu.
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