The Builder Method – action-oriented educational approaches in architecture Erasmus Project

Project Title

The Builder Method – action-oriented educational approaches in architecture

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The Builder Method – action-oriented educational approaches in architecture research and innovative methodology development project network is coordinated by Hello Wood Ltd. (HU) with the partnership of Stowarzyszenie Architektow Polskich Oddzial w Poznaniu – SARP (PL), Groupe Ecole Supérieure du Bois and Martial Marquet Studio (F), Szechenyi István University (HU) and Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (R).

The partnership undertakes to develop a new methodology of an alternative, presence and action-based architectural education with curricula supplementary purpose of the existing architectural programmes.

The Builder Method – as it is transmitted – builds 3 things: objects / buildings, communities, and personality. The fund-assets of the Builder Method are the presence and the building-process. Architecture is a fine combination of disciplines, targets, paradigms, entities and realism, it is an attitude, mindset more than a profession and that is the message the Builder Method is trying to broadcast. Builders care for their environment, they prefer hand-build objects, they are capable of creating while forming themselves and preserving the environmental context they navigate in. They are fully aware of the materials they use, the impact they make and community they belong to. They really think global but act local.

The holistic principle of the Builder Method project is to give and to educate, to help with a tool to individuals (students, teachers, architects, non-architects) to learn about themselves, to develop their skills and personality and to get connected with an ancient human competence: the competence to create and hand-build.

The primary target group of the project is those open-minded, experimenting professionals, artists, architects, educators who are willing to revolutionize firstly the architectural education in Europe and on the long-run in different field of higher education as an experience creating, point-of-view shaping, community building and self-development educational tool for every disciplines. The project aims to form attitudes and point of views not only in the primary target group of the outputs but with a high accent on the secondary target group: the future students of architecture.
The Builder Method project firstly aims to produce a well-elaborated, open source methodology (Builder Method Matrix) for out-of-the classroom education on the field of architecture with outstanding, distinguishing essences like community building, spirit and philosophy transmitting and contextual pedagogy to the primary target group of the project: the architectural educators.
Secondly the partnership’s goal output-wise is to publish a so-called Installation manual analyzing and structuring all the relevant (based on the shared experiences of the partnership) small and middle scale (mainly wooden) installations with know-hows about material-, assembly-, constractional needs for educational purposes. At last but not least it plans to build a database of Builder projects, a collection, analysis and synthesis of like minded initiatives from all over the world visualized on an interactive map to establish good practices for those who seek to study similar initiatives which are socially rooted, environmentally reactive and presence conscious.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 317414 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hello Wood Ltd. & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Groupe Ecole Supérieure du Bois
• Stowarzyszenie Architektow Polskich Oddzial w Poznaniu
• Martial Marquet Studio
• UNIVERSITATEA SAPIENTIA DIN MUNICIPIUL CLUJ-NAPOCA
• SZECHENYI ISTVAN UNIVERSITY