Teaching the Designer Chapter 4. The Birth of the Architect

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.

Teaching the Designer Chapter 1. Before Schools

This episode explores how design knowledge was transmitted long before formal education existed, revealing teaching as a fundamental human activity rooted in observation, practice, and collective experience.

The Origins of Architecture Chapter 10. The First Architects Were Communities

This episode concludes the season by exploring how architecture emerged through collective learning and shared experience, arguing that long before architects existed, communities themselves were the true creators of architecture.