Charlie Smith is Reader in Creative Pedagogies at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on learning and teaching in creative disciplines – and on assessment and feedback in particular – to enhance and enrich the student learning experience. Research projects he has led include studying students’ perceptions of the design review, students’ understanding and uptake of feedback, and students’ expectations and experience of higher education. He has also innovated ways in which students’ studio project work can inform research projects, creating collaborative partnerships with them.

• Introduction Charlie Smith; Chapter One: A Framework for Enhancing the Design Skill Sets of Landscape Architecture Students Gerhard Griesel and Magda Fourie-Malherbe; Chapter Two: Integrating Critical and Rhetorical Writing in the Beginning Architecture Studio Andrew R. Tripp; Chapter Three: Refocusing the Interior Lens: Other Methods of Critical and Creative Inquiry in the Architecture Studio Anika van Aswegen; Chapter Four: Collaborative Thinking Through the Dynamics of Site and Architecture in Design Education Sean Burns; Chapter Five: Strategies for Nurturing Evaluative Judgement in Design Students Charlie Smith; Conclusions Charlie Smith

"This volume presents an invaluable selection of alternative approaches to the hegemonic Beaux-Arts model of architecture education. Each chapter presents practical and imaginative case studies of teaching and learning architecture, drawing upon innovative pedagogical theories from higher education and encouraging tutors to critically challenge assumed and redundant conventions."Dr. Peter Holgate, Associate Professor of Architecture / Director of Education, Northumbria University