Table 1

Studios shaping architectural practice and thinking

SRepresentative excerptsInitial codes
5“The IAD studio. At first, I thought architecture was not for me, but IAD changed my mind. I am drawn to studios that are design oriented. They stimulate my imagination and are not confined to fixed rules, and that’s why.”
  • →Transformative studio experience

  • →Design-oriented studio preference

  • →Imagination and freedom from fixed rules

10“AD4. It is kind of a turning-point project. Before AD4, analysis went by very fast: ‘Do the analysis, look at sample boards.’ We were doing exactly what they had done, but why we were doing it was missing. With AD4 there is a long analysis phase, and that improved.”
  • →AD4 as pivotal studio

  • →Superficial/imitative analysis in earlier studios

  • →Extended analysis phase

28“AD4 and IAD. In the other projects it is more like absorbing information like a sponge. Information is given, there is a doctrine, and you are expected to internalize it. If I learned anything about architecture in AD4, it was learning on my own. AD4 was exactly the beginning of that.”
  • →Passive/doctrine-based learning

  • →AD4 fostering self-directed learning

Source(s): Author’s own work

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