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                                                                                                  Text Box: Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future   Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson, (editors)   Urban International Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom  (2007) ISBN# 1-872811-09-04   Contact: Carol Nicholson at: carol.nicholson@ribaenterprises.com   Text Box: From the Back Cover This groundbreaking book is a new comprehensive round of debate developed in response to the lack of research on design pedagogy. It provides thoughts, ideas, and experiments of design educators of different generations, different academic backgrounds, who are teaching and conducting research in different cultural contexts. It probes future universal visions within which the needs of future shapers of the built environment can be conceptualized and the design pedagogy that satisfies those needs can be debated. Addressing academics, practitioners, graduate students, and those who make decisions about the educational system over twenty contributors remarkably introduce analytical reflections on their positions and experience. Two invited contributions of. N. John Habraken and Henry Sanoff offer visionary thoughts on their outstanding experience in design pedagogy and research. Structured in five chapters, this book introduces theoretical perspectives on design pedagogy and outlines a number of thematic issues that pertain to critical thinking and decision making; cognitive and teaching/learning styles; community, place, and service learning; and the application of digital technologies in studio teaching practices, all articulated in a conscious endeavor toward the betterment of the built environment.   For more information, complete table of contents, and excerpts from the introduction, click here>> or Visit the publishers Web Pages Open House International/The Urban International Press>> or Download the Order Form here>> Text Box: Review by Michael J. Crosbie, Head of Department of Architecture, University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Published in Open House International Vol 32 (3), and in Archnet-IJAR Vol 1 (2), Click here>> Review by Halina Dunin-Woyseth, Professor of Architecture, Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo, Norway. Published in Archnet-IJAR Vol 1 (3), and intended for publication in the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, Click here>> Review by Julia William Robinson, Professor of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA. Published in Archnet-IJAR Vol 1 (3), Click here>> Review by Nikos A. Salingaros, Theorist in Architecture and Urbanism, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Coming soon>> Review by Research Design Connections, Click here>>