Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Jennifer Akerman
What does it mean to be an architect today? What will it mean to be an architect in the near future? How will the emerging professionals we teach make decisions about how they want to practice? As educators, we develop new pedagogical approaches for teaching professional practice in response to landmark changes in architectural discourse and contemporary architectural practice. This paper shares lessons learned from an innovative course in professional practice that was radically reformed to identify and explore how one might practice architecture in the 21st century through a multicultural, feminist, and socially-just lens.1 Even as those inflections may be new, the fundamental pedagogical emphasis of the course Professional Practice remains to help students recognize that all professional choices are ultimately ethical decisions. The new professional practice course’s mission is to motivate students to actively design their future as architects with an awareness of their agency within shifting professional culture and standards.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2023.61
Volume Editors
Massimo Santanicchia
ISBN
978-1-944214-44-9
