Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing

Meraz, Fidel; Marco, Elena; Rice, Louis; Drozynski, Charles

Abstract

Nurturing Architecture explores how an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and supporting growth and development, might be understood as a founding principle for architectural education and practice. The term allows multiple interpretations, which include the concept of an ‘architecture that nurtures’ and/or the ‘nurturing of architecture’ itself as discipline and practice, as well as implying an exploration of how we might ‘nurture architects’ by caring for future (and current) architects in education and practice. Inherent in these responsibilities is the notion of wellbeing and the way in which architects and educators consider the wellbeing of future and current generations of users and other stakeholders, as well as the future and current wellbeing of a community of architects, academics, and students.

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Acceptance Date: Nov 23, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 27, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 27, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 7, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 18, 2022
• Journal: Charrette
• Print ISSN: 2054-6718
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-9
• Keywords: education, nurturing, wellbeing, architecture
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8535686
• Publisher URL: https://architecturaleducators.org/aae-journal/