Teaching the Designer Chapter 1. Before Schools

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.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 3. Drawing Before Building

This episode explores how drawing transformed design education by allowing ideas to be imagined, represented, discussed, and taught before they were ever built.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 2. The Workshop as a Classroom

This episode explores how workshops functioned as humanity’s earliest design classrooms, where knowledge was transmitted through apprenticeship, practice, collaboration, and learning by doing.