Architecture's Afterlife The Multisector Impact of an Architecture Degree

Almost 40% of architecture graduates choose not to practise as architects. Instead, by ?leaving? their chosen profession, this surprisingly large but vastly overlooked cohort are making significant contributions to a wide range of other sectors, from politics to videogame design, demonstrating that architectural training can be a pathway to roles, and even leadership opportunities, across a variety of other professions.

Architecture?s Afterlife is the first book to examine the sectors into which these graduates migrate, and to identify the transferable skills that are learned, but not always taught, in their degree programmes, and that prove most useful in their new careers.

The book ? a result of a three-year pan-European study funded by Erasmus+ ? provides a roadmap for increasing graduate employment, addressing skills shortages across all sectors and adapting curricula to changing professional landscapes. It is therefore essential reading for all those responsible for curriculum design and delivery in architecture and other disciplines, including deans, professors, postgraduate researchers and policy makers, as well as students and professionals seeking to expand their career prospects.

PART 1: CONTEXT, TERMINOLOGIES & METHODOLOGIES 1.Introduction 2. What is Architecture? A Contested History of the Discipline and its Embedded Meanings 3. Researching Architecture’s Afterlife: A Methodological Framework PART 2: ARCHITECTURE & IDENTITY 4. The Concerning Characteristics of the Transposable Architectural Mindset 5. Architecture as ‘Modus Operandi’: Educating for a Cross-boundary Approach 6. Architectural Education Provides Hard/Soft Competences 7. From Blurred Limits of Architecture to New Practices PART THREE: ARCHITECTURE & WORK 8. Architecture as a Professional Title 9. On Collective Work and Individual Responsibilities 10. Pervasiveness of Architecture and Work-Life Balance PART 4: CONCLUSIONS 11.Skills that are Learned but not Taught and their Impact on Multi-Sector Transversality Within the Gig Economy 12. Opportunities in Mismatches Between Architectural Education and Professional Outcomes 13. Propositions for Pedagogy, Policy and the Profession 14. The Research’s Afterlife

Dr Michela Barosio is a full time associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino. During 2018/19 she coordinated the reform of the Bachelor program in architecture at Politecnico. Michela is a chartered architect holding a Phd in Architecture and Building Design. She teaches both in undergraduate and in master program of Architecture in multidisciplinary Design Units and she’s currently supervising PhD dissertation. Her research is focused on three main axis: architectural education methods, parametric design and urban morphological regeneration of industrial dismantled areas. She has been engaged in many national and international research programs such as ‘Architecture-Market-Democracy. The evaluation of architectural quality as an issue: aesthetic criteria in programs for housing between market and democracy’ (2011–2013), or ‘Architecture and Places: local landscape valorisation between identity development and promotion. From “parish maps” to “territorial brands”’ (2010–2012). She actively participated in the EAAE education academy workshops since 2016 and she is currently a member of the EAAE Council.

Dag Boutsen is the dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture with campuses in Brussels and Ghent. Dag is a Belgian architect and has a lot of experience in co-creative design with projects in the Netherlands, France and Germany. His particular teamwork-experience has grown through 20 years of working with Lucien Kroll on numerous housing and school complexes developed through participatory workshops. The search for the right ‘spot’ for the discipline of architecture, as one among the numerous other university disciplines is what keeps Dag going since 2009: the societal position, the research setting as well as the educational point. As a dean of a Faculty of Architecture belonging to one of the oldest, most research-based and internationally very high ranked universities in Europe and beyon