Opportunities to design real structures on campus, as well as pupil participation in Growing Spaces Project, the campus’s ambitious campus development programme.
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Mies van der Rohe
This Main Lesson covers the many varied architectural movements that have emerged since the beginning of human civilisation. The class study the core aims of each movement and conduct more detailed studies on individual architects and buildings, each exemplifying their respective movements.
Key questions are posed: How do we approach architecture in terms of function, structure, and material? How do space, culture, and the social issues of a civilisation at a given time influence architecture? And how do the dominant technologies in all aspects of society and culture — hunting/gathering (Neolithic), agriculture, industrial revolution, electronic (information/biotech) — play a role?
The Main Lesson is delivered by experienced Waldorf Teacher Rachel Craig, who worked in the architecture sector before turning her hand to education. Madame Craig has a Bachelor of Arts in Spacial Architecture from the University of the Arts London and project managed the Growing Spaces Project: East and West Coach Houses renovations.
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