Abstract
In what ways and to what extent can the individual shape the institution and thereby the architectural education it provides? How does this manifest itself in the formation and experience of the student on their journey towards establishing their own personal creative practice and agency?
 This paper attempts to explore the three-way relationship between school, teacher and student, with the aim of exposing the constant dynamic and flux as each acts on and is responsive to the others, while all aim to achieve a coherent and synthesised architectural education and entry to architectural practice. In this, the impact and agency of communities of practice are considers in counterpoint the charismatic individual.
 The paper also discusses the methods used to unearth aspects of our relationship between teacher and student, mentor and tyro, proto and mature practitioner, not as a set of dualities but as spectrum where the individual’s position, behaviours and dependences shift and change over time as they continue on a bespoke trajectory, more often a series of loops and knots than a straight line.
Highlights
In what ways and to what extent can the individual shape the institution and thereby the architectural education it provides? How does this manifest itself in the formation and experience of the student on their journey towards establishing their own personal creative practice and agency?
Having identified three key communities of practice that have helped define the Academy (Glasgow School of Art and the Mackintosh School of Architecture) in which my teaching practice is located, this paper and the connected research considers how these have influenced the development of my practice, firstly as a student and latterly as a member of staff and equivalent of ‘senior partner’ within the ‘practice’
Techniques and methodologies developed and used in carrying out this research form part of a toolkit which allows the tacit aspects of the design process, decision making and realisation to be identified and revealed for closer consideration and wider discussion, and in regular use with second cycle students and young practitioners
Summary
In what ways and to what extent can the individual shape the institution and thereby the architectural education it provides? How does this manifest itself in the formation and experience of the student on their journey towards establishing their own personal creative practice and agency?. Revealing the Academy: Exploring the Relationships and Agency Between School, Teacher and Student in an Architectural Education
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