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Book SynopsisDisabled 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 knowledge over professional skills as the proper aim and focus of architecture education. The insurgent pedagogy introduced subverts architecture and its teachingâs capture by capitalismâs dominant modes of production and consumption to reveal unexpected tactics for enlarging possibilities.
Grounded in architecture histories and theories, philosophy, anarchismâs emphasis on use and dissensus, combined with PUNKâs DIY ethos, design studio emphasis on technicity is upended to reveal the subversive aim of intensifying tensions between (doomed) desires for artistic autonomy and (intrinsic) burdens of use constituting architecture as a discipline, instead of seeking resolution, some ne
