“Shadrach Woods and the Architecture of Education, 1962–1973” examines Shadrach Woods’ writings and projects concerning education in the United States and Europe. Woods, who was never formally trained as an architect, was a partner of the firm Candilis, Josic, Woods from 1955 to 1968-9, and a core member of Team 10. In 1962, he began teaching architecture in the United States, first at Yale and then subsequently at Harvard, Rice and Cornell. During this period, he frequently lectured on the topic of education, where he outlined his own radical ideas for reforming education, which included the abolition of degrees and traditional academic curriculum for an approach that would integrate education with the urban community and would provide education for people of all ages. Many of his ideas were in part inspired by his encounter through Joachim Pfeufer with Robert Filiou and the French Fluxus movement, stemming in part from their collaboration on the “Non-School” of Villefranche (1966). Woods also designed projects for universities including the Free University in Berlin (1963-1973) and unbuilt schemes for Bochum University (1962), University College Dublin (1964), Thailand University in Bangkok (1971) and Brussels University (1971). In these designs he pursued organizational strategies such as the “stem” and the “web” which were closely related to ideas concerning growth and indeterminancy. This thesis, based on three years of archival research and extensive interviews of acquaintances and former students of Woods, analyzes both his published and unpublished texts, as well as built and unbuilt projects in the hope of elucidating a little studied dimension of postwar European and American architecture. It shows how his Woods’ thinking and practice were related both to ideas of Team 10 and the art movement Fluxus, and analyzes, in particular, the influence that his teaching and thought had on American architectural education. In the last chapter, the dissertation also considers Woods’ links to the Italian architectural scene, examining his relationship to Giancarlo De Carlo, the member of Team 10 to whom he felt most intellectually and personally connected.

Un'eredità del Team X. Shadrach Woods e l'Architettura dell'Educazione tra Europa e USA (1962-1973 / Doglio, Federica. - STAMPA. - (2013).

Un'eredità del Team X. Shadrach Woods e l'Architettura dell'Educazione tra Europa e USA (1962-1973

DOGLIO, FEDERICA
2013

Abstract

“Shadrach Woods and the Architecture of Education, 1962–1973” examines Shadrach Woods’ writings and projects concerning education in the United States and Europe. Woods, who was never formally trained as an architect, was a partner of the firm Candilis, Josic, Woods from 1955 to 1968-9, and a core member of Team 10. In 1962, he began teaching architecture in the United States, first at Yale and then subsequently at Harvard, Rice and Cornell. During this period, he frequently lectured on the topic of education, where he outlined his own radical ideas for reforming education, which included the abolition of degrees and traditional academic curriculum for an approach that would integrate education with the urban community and would provide education for people of all ages. Many of his ideas were in part inspired by his encounter through Joachim Pfeufer with Robert Filiou and the French Fluxus movement, stemming in part from their collaboration on the “Non-School” of Villefranche (1966). Woods also designed projects for universities including the Free University in Berlin (1963-1973) and unbuilt schemes for Bochum University (1962), University College Dublin (1964), Thailand University in Bangkok (1971) and Brussels University (1971). In these designs he pursued organizational strategies such as the “stem” and the “web” which were closely related to ideas concerning growth and indeterminancy. This thesis, based on three years of archival research and extensive interviews of acquaintances and former students of Woods, analyzes both his published and unpublished texts, as well as built and unbuilt projects in the hope of elucidating a little studied dimension of postwar European and American architecture. It shows how his Woods’ thinking and practice were related both to ideas of Team 10 and the art movement Fluxus, and analyzes, in particular, the influence that his teaching and thought had on American architectural education. In the last chapter, the dissertation also considers Woods’ links to the Italian architectural scene, examining his relationship to Giancarlo De Carlo, the member of Team 10 to whom he felt most intellectually and personally connected.
2013
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