The international architecture students prize programme I previously managed was presented on Wednesday in London, with 217 schools 'worldwide' now invited. The Dissertation Medal, awarded for a work on 'Rookeries and No-Go Estates', and the Part 1 Serjeant Award for Drawing winner were highlights. Hearing the term "UK and abroad" (with an Oslo project for Glasgow being the only premiated trace of the latter schools) I wondered about two respective standards of internationalisation.The inaugural World Architecture Festival was held in Barcelona in October, a new, internationalist enterprise by Emap, with 26 media partners, and pre-recession funding. For its Student Charette, I was told last year, on enquiring from Mongolia, that only the ten 'best' architecture schools in the world would be invited to participate. Exciting, then, that of the five teams participating, the winners came from the hitherto little-known HafenCity University Hamburg, (est. 2006), a specialist University of the Built Environment "under construction".
Meanwhile, a friend now teaching at LKW in Botswana, (a former Curtin LICT student), showed interest in the architecture teacher training project in Mongolia and suggested publications...
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When a colleague at Silpakorn University asked for Validation advice in brief, I replied:
"As regards validation for Silpakorn, its actually a complex question. I have some work in this area however. Besides working on accreditation in Mongolia, I have been part of international validation visiting boards to KNUA (Seoul, Korea) Bio Bio (Concepcion, Chile) Central (Santiago de Chile) and Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina) consulting on precisely this topic. I am willing to help Silpakorn Uni.
See this page for a brief introduction.
The validation criteria for RIBA Parts 1 and 2 are set out in this pdf download.
The Part 3 is UK-practice specific, but in general, see the four main topics set out in this page
Basically, courses have some combination of studio, science, history, culture, communications and elective or optional subjects in each of about six semesters/ three years to Part 1, and similar, with additional professional, practice, management and specialist subjects, over about two years in Part 2.
See this about the structure of professional experience (stages 1 and 2).
There are some books related to this, (one from RIBA called Tomorrow’s Architect), but the website is the most technically comprehensive and up-to-date. It is a lot to follow however.
Then there is the UK statutory body, ARB
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