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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: Excerpts from the Review by Michael J. Crosbie titled Assessing Architectural Education’s ‘Crown Jewel’ Published in the second issue of Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. - Download the Full Review, Click here>> "....Over the years, especially during the last half of the last century, much has been written about the architecture studio and its pedagogy. The turbulence of much of that period was reflected in the studio and its changing role in training architects for a society in flux. The studio continues to be a focal point for experimentation, reflection, invention, and reaction. A new publication brings together some of the most thoughtful, helpful, and provocative ideas about the architecture studio and how it can be adapted. Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future, edited by Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson (both of whom are architects and architectural educators), brings under one cover 23 contemporary articles by 25 architectural educators from around the world who consider the special nature of the design studio, how it is changing, and how it might change in the future. Salama and Wilkinson, both of whom have written extensively about architectural education, organize the collection under five chapters: 1. Theoretical Perspectives and Positions; 2. Critical Thinking and Decision Making in Studio Pedagogy; 3. Addressing Cognitive Styles in Studio Pedagogy; 4. Community, Place, and the Studio; 5. Digital Technologies and the Studio. Each chapter opens with a helpful and insightful essay by Salama and Wilkinson on the articles that follow. The book commences with two special contributions, one each by N. John Habraken and Henry Sanoff (both giants in the field of architectural education) that provide historical context for the five chapters that follow. Underlying both essays is the question of power—in the studio, and in the profession at large—woven as a theme throughout the book...." "...The design studio’s resilience amid social and educational tumult suggests that it will not soon disappear. But this valuable collection assembled by Salama and Wilkinson of observations, ideas, theories, and experiments centered on the design studio will surely provoke new discussions, patterns, and paradigms concerning the crown jewel of architectural education..." Michael J. Crosbie is the Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, USA, and writes extensively about architecture, design, and education.