Education

The education of the Architecture Archives of the Future group is situated at the intersections of advanced architectural design, history and theory, archival studies and museology. The aim is to develop innovative methods of architectural knowledge production based on the new opportunities offered by digital media and technologies, while building on the Delft methods of plan analysis and precedent research.

Architecture archives are considered a resource in the first place: of knowledge, experience, and inspiration. Confrontation and combination of archival studies with design-driven questions will result to new approaches and design knowledge. Education is therefore geared to open up these archival resources to critically and speculatively design for the future. Notions of memory and heritage are combined with the ones of imagination and projection. Questions behind the education programme are design-driven to contribute to the urgent societal questions of today.

VR and XR technologies and digital modelling are used as explorative tools, yet always in combination with the 'old' media of paper drawings, physical models and other media, all in order to help assess the possibilities, meanings and values of these media in relation to architectural design, and their impact on the planning and experience of the built environment.

Architecture Archives of the Future offers the following courses:

• The MSc 2 elective Housing Studies: An Open Intersectional Archive (AR0107) mines the rich housing traditions of the Netherlands and beyond. Design analysis is combined with archival studies, readings and interviews.
• The MSc 2 studio The Virtual Architecture Museum (AR2AA016) combines digital modelling and VR technologies with archival research and architectural studies to learn from earlier architectural concepts and speculate on new ones and their related experiences. The studio is supported by the VR Lab.