CORE LEARNING HOURS

Provider: The Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES)

Location: August 4 - 7, 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Building Technology Educators’ Society (BTES) is an organization of architectural educators, passionate about teaching the technology of building design and construction. The mission of the BTES is to promote and publish the best pedagogic practices, relevant research, scholarship, and other creative activity to facilitate student learning, advance innovation, and enhance the status of our disciplines in the profession at large.

The BTES continues its series of conferences with the Toronto Conference. The purpose of the BTES Conference is to provide faculty and graduate students with an opportunity to share their teaching and research in an open forum that fosters collegiality, connections and an exchange of ideas.

THEME OVERVIEW

If Architecture cannot exist in a vacuum, then what can be said of its pedagogy?

Architecture is the epitome of convergence. Throughout history architecture has made manifest the confluence of multiple disciplines, stakeholders, technologies, and materials that have intimately responded to its context. From multidisciplinary innovations in material technologies to unconventional appropriation of tools for teaching, it is difficult to find disciplines that do not present some impact on contemporary architecture. Where traditional models of architectural pedagogy have been reluctant to embrace this trend towards convergence, notable educators, practitioners, and students have emerged as vanguards of a contemporary and holistic discipline. To witness these convergences is to witness innovation. As architecture continues to evolve, it becomes increasingly evident that in order to educate future generations of designers, the discrete model of dissemination will be replaced with one that embraces the confluence of multiple dimensions and facets. 

This conference serves as a platform for educators, students, researchers, and professionals to explore, examine, and exhibit their work that continues this trajectory of convergence among various fields.

Conference Schedule

QUESTIONS?

Please email either of the conference chairs!

Terri Meyer Boake, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo
Vincent Hui, Department of Architecture, Ryerson University