Abstract
This essay examines the performative space of neoliberal architectural education in the United Kingdom, its history, attributes and values, focusing on staff and student wellbeing in relation to work-time. In so doing, it addresses the vertical unit studio as the ‘elephant in the room’. As a site in which unhealthy work practices are acculturated, and which, when learned at university, can be perpetuated throughout an architect’s work life, the vertical unit system encourages a competitive ego culture at the expense of a balanced work life. In a neoliberal market economy, how might the architecture design studio /education be reframed to enhance wellbeing?
Publication Date
2021-09-01
Publication Title
Charrette -Association of Architectural Educators
Publisher
Association of Architectural Educators
Embargo Period
2024-11-19
First Page
11
Last Page
35
Recommended Citation
Troiani, I. (2021) 'The Elephant in the Room: How neoliberal architecture education undermines wellbeing', Charrette -Association of Architectural Educators, , pp. 11-35. Association of Architectural Educators: Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ada-research/523
