YEARBOOK 2018 - 2019 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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Advanced Professional Practice
2018-2019 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Level 4
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )
Module Credits
5
Module Leader
Teresa Hoskyns
Guest Visitors and Speakers
Ben Derbyshire (RIBA President)
Paco Mejias
Florence Vannoorbeeck
Xu Liang (CONCOM Studio)
Yunpeng Liu (CMO XJTLU)
Nan Ye (XJTLU)
Number of Students
11
This year Advanced Professional Practice continued to use research
led teaching methods to investigate the meanings of the professional
architect in China and throughout the world. The students focused on
individual research projects to explore how aspects of the curriculum
can be applied to international firms, private firms or Local Design
Institutes. We worked particularly closely with Peter Marshall, Director
of BDP Shanghai who participated in lectures and seminars and who
give students a real life example of the challenges and opportunities
practitioners face in contemporary China. We also visited the BDP office
where students made interviews to explore their individual research
projects.
Students made a construction site visit where they had the chance to
visit the building site of the new School of Film and Television Arts
(SOFTA) under construction on the south campus.
As well as practice visits the course was taught through a combination
of weekly lectures, visiting lectures, and seminars. For the seminars
students were required to do weekly readings on the different aspects
of professional practice in China and actively engage in seminar
discussions to develop a critical approach to their coursework. Students
examined the diverse roles of the architectural professional for example,
the social, public, and ethical responsibilities of the architect and how
these may change in different countries. The course introduced students
to a framework of moral codes, good practice, building practices,
construction management, contracts, costing and procurement models.
For the coursework students were required to undertake detailed
research into an architectural offices practicing in an international
context to examine the responsibilities and challenges the architectural
professional faces. The research led teaching techniques involved
students visiting architectural offices and sites to do original research,
including interviewing architects to develop case studies on diverse
forms of practice. We have a Teaching Development Fund from the
University that supported the extra activities of the module.
Special Thanks to
Peter Marshall (BDP Shanghai)
Level 04 – Year 1
M Arch Des Programme