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Bridging the gap between architectural and environmental engineering education in the context of climate change

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Indicated in this article is the urgent need to adjust architectural education to the challenges triggered by climate change. Although reports on the future scenarios for cities are alarming, documents that set criteria for architectural education do not indicate competencies related to climate change adaptation and mitigation, mainly by avoiding environmental engineering considerations. An immediate answer to this problem could be specifically shaped design studios that bridge the gap between architectural and environmental engineering. Proposals developed by students prove that combining architectural concepts with environmental and water management issues contribute to the spatial, ecological and social quality of a project. However, as proposed by a few, such design studios do not contribute significantly to the overall profile of a graduate architect. This may result in a lack of specialist competencies among graduates, which could substantially inhibit a process of adaptation of cities to climate change.

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Articles
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artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education no. 17, pages 204 - 209,
ISSN: 1446-2257
Language:
English
Publication year:
2019
Bibliographic description:
Nyka L.: Bridging the gap between architectural and environmental engineering education in the context of climate change// World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education -Vol. 17,iss. 2 (2019), s.204-209
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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