HKDI Projects Review #02
This is the second of the HKDI Architecture Projects Review publication #02 – Architects as Makers – Design, Material and Fabrication” which offers an overview of a collection of material exploration workshops and 1:1 fabrication works from 2013-2018. The curriculum of HKDI Architecture covers the fundamental aspects of the study of architecture namely, Design Studios ; History and Theory ; Technical Studies ; Visualization and Media ; Professional Practice. It is seemingly a typical core structure of curriculum that runs in most prominent architecture schools. Like other architectural institutions, the call and challenges of the digital age with the juxtaposition of local culture, values and ways of making and construction has to be answered. Here, the school evolves a pedagogy that based on the “learning-by-doing” ethos and amalgamating the pillars of the fundamental aspects of architecture – design and technical studies.