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this is a booklet about a first year design studio in a school of architecture. It describes and reflects on changes that happened over a three year period starting Sept 2000. The studio is made up of students from mainstream architecture, and dual courses with landscape and engineering. This site is used to publish the booklet in full.

Friday, December 16, 2005

building clouds: backcover



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This blog shows page by page the Booklet “Building Clouds Drifting Walls. Year One Design Studio: A Critical Appraisal”.

Building Clouds describes an experimental design studio led by Ruth Morrow that took place in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield between Sept 2000 and June 2003. The Design Studio challenged some of architectural education’s more traditional approaches and was recognized for its innovation.
Contributors to Building Clouds: Jane Anderson, Adam Cowley, Gary Doherty, Dan Jary, Jo Lintonbon, Jacqueline Mulcair, Fevzi Ozersay, Rosie Parnell, John Sampson, Rachel Sara, Baz Shamsuddin, Judy Torrington.

The Booklet was funded by a University of Sheffield Senate Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded to Ruth Morrow in June 2003 and published by the A Bank of Ideas (2003) ISBN 0-954-13621-7.


Other writing related to this work include:

Morrow, R. “Building Clouds Drifting Walls: architectural pedagogy”. Chapter in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics And Poetics of Space, Edited by Doina Petrescu, Routledge, (2007) ISBN: 978-0-41535786-9


Morrow, R. "Creative Activism: a Pedagogical and Research tool." In Edited Proceedings of Architectural Research Centers Consortium and European Association for Architectural Education 2006 International Conference on Architectural Research, Philadelphia, US. May 07


Morrow, R, Judy Torrington, Rosie Parnell. "Reality versus Creativity" in TRANSACTIONS (online journal of centre for education in built environment) Volume 1, Issue 2. Dec 04


Morrow, R. ‘Why the shoe doesn’t fit – architectural assumptions and environmental discrimination.’ In Changing Architectural Education: towards a new professionalism. Edited by David Nicol and Simon Pilling. E & FN Spon. (2000) pp. 43-48 ISBN 0419259201


Morrow R et al. "Building and Sustaining a learning environment for inclusive design" Published Report (Jan 03) on Website of Centre for Education in the Built Environment

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