TY - CHAP
T1 - Environmental knowledge and paradigm shifts
T2 - sustainability and architectural pedagogy in Africa and the Middle East
AU - Salama, Ashraf M.
PY - 2002/10
Y1 - 2002/10
N2 - There has been a trend in the past decade to introduce a new paradigm of thinking about the manner in which architects, urban designer, and planners approach the design of built environments. This new paradigm places emphasis on the concept of sustainability, a concept with should be come the focus and goal of architectural education worldwide. Accordingly, the question that this paper addresses is: have we, architectural educators, reached to reconfigure our curricula in a manner that is based on sustainability?
AB - There has been a trend in the past decade to introduce a new paradigm of thinking about the manner in which architects, urban designer, and planners approach the design of built environments. This new paradigm places emphasis on the concept of sustainability, a concept with should be come the focus and goal of architectural education worldwide. Accordingly, the question that this paper addresses is: have we, architectural educators, reached to reconfigure our curricula in a manner that is based on sustainability?
KW - architectural education
KW - environment-behaviour studies
KW - green architecture
KW - sustainable development
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9782940075072
T3 - Architecture & Behaviour Colloquia
SP - 51
EP - 59
BT - Architectural Education Today
PB - Comportements
CY - Lausanne, Switzerland
ER -
