Scholar Architect is a project developed since 2020 at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania and funded by the FDI (The Institutional Development Fund), Domain 5: Improving the quality of teaching, including the observance of professional and academic ethics.
From the very beginning of the project, we focused on the development of open-access materials aimed at introducing a variety of topical themes and trends and at promoting and fostering research in the architectural, urban planning and related academic fields, as well as at promoting interdisciplinary approaches, with a view to achieving an in-depth understanding of the relevant realities, contexts and phenomena, which can provide a basis for design decisions.
Coherence, complexity, responsibility and innovation are the project’s keywords, and they are pursued both as qualities of the academic architectural and urban planning design projects and as requirements of contemporary society, which students should be encouraged to fulfill in the course of the educational process.
Project coordinator: Anda-Ioana SFINTEȘ
Project editions:
Perfecting and improving the scientific quality of architectural education
Improving the efficiency of UAUIM teaching with a focus on learning outcomes as a result of subject-specific research (providing a solid foundation for architectural projects by connecting academic writing and research with the design process in the academic environment) and improving quality management by giving access to suitable resources for teaching, supervision, learning and research.
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/scholarh/2020/
Improving the quality of research and teaching in architectural education
Improving the efficiency of UAUIM teaching and quality management by providing access to suitable resources for teaching, research and learning, with an emphasis on alignment to academic ethical and professional norms, as well as on the results of learning derived from the optimal use of contemporary educational trends in the teaching of architecture, urban planning and design and in the targeted professions.
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/scholarh/2021/
Research and implementation of new trends, innovations and experiments in architecture and related fields of education
Improving the quality of UAUIM teaching by addressing, researching, using and disseminating key topical, innovative and experimental ideas in approaching architecture, urban planning and related fields, within a nationally and internationally open context.
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/scholarh/2022/
Promoting linkage to topical trends, technologies and issues in architectural and urban planning education
Supporting the quality of UAUIM teaching in relation to topical themes and trends from the national and international academic and professional environments as well as to contemporary technologies used in architecture, urban planning and in related fields
https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/scholarh/2023/
Sustainable support for improving the quality of research-centered teaching in architectural and urban planning education
Consolidation of the Scholar Architect brand as a UAUIM entity focused on improving the quality of research-centered teaching in relation to the University’s specific field of activity, pursuing the linkage to topical issues and trends in the academic and professional environments, as well to contemporary technologies, starting from the theme of decoding the context as a primary didactic objective.