Environmental Knowledge and Paradigm Shifts: Sustainability and Architectural Pedagogy

摘要: Paradigm Change: Shifting Attitudes about the Environment There has been a trend in the past decade to introduce a new paradigm of thinking about the manner in which architects, urban designers, and planners approach the design of built environments. This new paradigm places emphasis on the concept of sustainability, a concept that should become the focus and goal of architectural education worldwide. Accordingly, the question that this paper addresses is: have we, architectural educators, reached to reconfigure our curricula in a manner that is based on sustainability?Sustainability, within the scope of this paper, is envisioned as a stale in which all hunnans, now and in the future, can live at a decent level of well being within the limits of what nature can provide our species and withstand from it in continuity and at no undue harm to other forms of life. Thus, it is a concept that would entail an economic …