BUILDING FOR ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION

Architecture schools are currently being built all over the world. The main reasons for this lie in new space requirements and the pursuit of excellence in education. Despite the claim of many institutions to convey concepts for a new, innovative architecture, when building their own facilities, schools are often bound to strict conditions and given space allocation plans. Under these conditions, how can free space for architectural training be created and forward-looking ideas and unconventional uses promoted? The third Lucerne Symposium pursued this question by examining the real spaces in which architects are trained. The dialogues and essays compiled in this volume discuss what future teaching institutes could look like and whether a school still has to consist of buildings at all. The result is a polyphonic intercultural exchange that collects contemporary and visionary ideas for architecture schools in the age of global pandemics and digital teaching. With contributions by Marc Angélil, Walter Angonese, Marcela Aragüez, Gregorio Astengo, Damaris Baumann, Raffael Baur, Heike Biechteler, Daniel Boermann, Angelo Bucci, Hansjürg Buchmeier, Hanspeter Bürgi, Francesco Buzzi, Camille and Yannick Claessens-Vallet, Natalie Plagaro Cowee, Sascha Delz, Luca Deon, Dieter Dietz, Matej Draslar, Raphaël Dunant, Guillermo Dürig, Christoph Flury, Anja Fröhlich, Dieter Geissbühler, Patricia Guaita, Mathias Heinz, Axel Humpert, Kasia Jackowska, Adam Jasper, Johannes Käferstein, Orkun Kasap, Frederick Chando Kim, Jeannette Kuo, Anne Lacaton, Torsten Lange, Philip Loskant, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Zeljko Medved, Marianne Meister, Ciro Miguel, Ludovica Molo, Lando Rossmaier, Dominique Salathé, Gabrielle Schaad, C. Lars Schuchert, Peter Schwehr, Andreas Sonderegger , Veronika Spierenburg, Daniel Studer, Alexandre Theriot, Jean-Philippe Vassal, Felix Wettstein, Christoph Wieser, Besa Zajimi and Christian Zimmermann.