Project journal: teaching passive design in architecture

The Journal has been organized into two sections. The first section is an essay which articulates underlying theoretical issues and questions about design methods and their potential impact on design education. These issues and ideas form the philosophical basis on which the overall project was organized and managed. As a result of protracted dialogue with educators from the participating schools, these views, ideas and constructs have been altered in fundamental ways. The second section of the Journal can be summarized as A Resource Guide. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is an abbreviated Project History which highlights significant events and major goals. The second chapter (Summaries and commentary) presents excerpts from the participating schools and includes critical commentary by the principal investigators. The third chapter is a Pedagogical Guide which organizes the material from the schools into appropriate categories of learning styles and teaching settings. It allows a design critic to see at a glance how each of the packages is intended to be used in a variety of traditional teaching settings in schools of architecture. The last chapter is a Technical Index. This is an attempt to structure and present minimum technical models which should bemore » internalized for the designer to become thermally literate. Thic chapter also places the technical contribution of each school in a larger framework.« less