'We Have Never Been Modern(ist)’ (Un)Learning Practice.

Lang, Ruth (2021) 'We Have Never Been Modern(ist)’ (Un)Learning Practice. In: (Un)Learning Through Architecture. Architecture Fringe, Edinburgh, pp. 68-73.

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Abstract

As architects we tend to like to think of ourselves as modern - if not necessarily Modern - in our conduct, embracing all the contemporary opportunities that training and practice afford us in the pursuit of making great architecture. But whilst architectural style has shifted from Modern to Postmodern to post-Postmodern, the ways we teach and learn the practice of architecture have deferred to an approach which is distinctly Beaux Arts. The shackles of historically accepted hierarchies, and the colonial attitudes towards the master-student relationship this entails still perpetuate in some form within even the most seemingly subversive of schools in the UK at present. If ever there was a time to push for radical change, this is it. Yet before we turn completely from our historical roots, there is a lot to be learnt from the Modernist era as to how we might get there.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	pedagogy
Depositing User:	Dr Ruth Lang
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2026 14:05
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2026 10:02
URI:	https://ube.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/212

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