Sustainability on the Agenda of Architectural Education

Abstract

The field of architecture and construction, due to its great environmental impact, is subject to regulation through environmental doctrines. However, in the field of professional and higher architectural and construction education, a comprehensive environmental education program has not yet been implemented. The area of urban education raises even more questions.

The orientation of activities to the strategy of sustainable development forces the architect and urban planner to look for adequate and effective answers to the challenges of our time, based on the principles of the strategy.

In 2013, the Moscow Institute of Architecture developed the Concept of Environmental Education that was approved in 2014. The prerequisites for its implementation are laid down in the profession of an architect and urban planner, transforming the natural landscape into anthropogenic. The purpose of the Concept, on the one hand, is to ensure the continuity of the formation of environmental thinking at all stages of the educational process, on the other hand, it allows using innovative technologies in the field of environmental construction in architectural design developed by specialists from engineering departments.

The essence of integrated architectural education is the mastery of the ability to develop and implement the socio­philosophical idea of a sustainable environment for the specific conditions of the region, the city on the basis of modern scientific and technical achievements in the field of urban planning, architecture, environmental safety, structures, building physics, and building materials.

The basis of this approach, called Integrated Architectural Education, is focused on the Sustainable Development Strategy, which includes:

• multi-level system of environmental education;


• design of architectural and engineering energy-efficient systems;


• the assessment system of a building for its entire life cycle.