Understanding architectural education in Australasia

The present document provides a detailed overview of who we - the members of the architecture discipline in academia - are, how we came to the current situation and what our prevailing concerns are. While the document provides an overview of architectural academia, its ultimate focus is on teaching and learning; on the pedagogical challenges we face, and the scholarly and instructional opportunities available to us. Importantly, the document does not offer solutions to these challenges or responses to the opportunities. Future, more detailed work must be undertaken on many of these areas before they can usefully benefit the discipline. Instead, the document supplements the detailed overview of architecture schools with an analysis of the teaching and learning priorities of the discipline. It offers advice on how these issues could be usefully approached and how individual schools might adopt them