Teaching the Designer Chapter 3. Drawing Before Building

Teaching the Designer Chapter 8. Bauhaus and Beyond

This episode explores how the Bauhaus transformed design education by uniting art, craft, technology, and experimentation, creating a legacy that continues to shape design schools worldwide.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 7. The Studio

This episode explores how the design studio became the heart of architectural education, teaching students through projects, critique, experimentation, and reflective practice rather than knowledge transmission alone.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 6. The Academy

This episode explores how academies transformed architectural learning by organising knowledge into formal curricula, helping establish design as a discipline that could be taught systematically.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 5. Learning from Books

This episode explores how books transformed design education by allowing architectural knowledge to travel across generations, creating shared intellectual traditions that extended beyond workshops and individual teachers.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 4. The Birth of the Architect

This episode explores how the architect emerged as a distinct professional figure, transforming design from a craft tradition into a specialised form of knowledge.