Book Talk: Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate

The Center for Architecture is pleased to host a round-table discussion celebrating the book launch of Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024) edited by Tülay Atak, Luis Callejas, Jonathan A. Scelsa, and Jørgen Johan Tandberg. This publication presents a series of academic curricular experiments that research climate science into the architectural curriculum. The book, written by architectural educators across twenty national and international schools of architecture, features teaching experiments presented across four sections: Abstraction, Organization, Building, and Narrative, exposing core parts of the education of an architect through pedagogies that provide fundamental skills and constructive literacy while simultaneously instigating environmental sensibilities. 



The roundtable event and book launch, sponsored by the Pratt School of Architecture, will bring together ten voices among the editors and contributors of the book to discuss the pedagogical balance between science and speculation while also interrogating architectural design education’s agency in the face of climate uncertainty. 

Speakers:
Tülay Atak, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute School of Architecture; Guest Professor, The Institute of Architecture (I oA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna/die Angewandte
Luis Callejas, Professor, Oslo School of Architecture and Design; Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jonathan A. Scelsa AIA, Associate Professor, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Lola Ben Alon, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Lawrence Blough, Professor, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Elisa Iturbe, Assistant Professor, Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Cristina Parreño Alonso, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Pietrusko, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
David Salomon, Associate Professor, Art, Art History and Architecture, Ithaca College
Nik Nikolov, Associate Professor, Lehigh University