Architecture as Pedagogy

Architecture as Pedagogy is a pedagogical-research project by Ali Javid to identify, draw and define pedagogies which emerged during socio-political changes, and expanded the boundaries of architecture discipline.

CV

EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Philosophy [Ph.D] (Architecture), University of Western Australia (UWA) (2018-2022)
  • Masters of Architecture [M.Arch], Art University of Isfahan (2007-2010)
  • Bachelor of Architecture [B.Arch], Azad Univeristy of Mashhad (2002-2007)

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

  • PhD awarded as the top 5% of PhD Projects at UWA (2023)
  • RTP scholarship (The Australian Government Research Training Program) (2018-2022)
  • UPAIS – University Postgraduate Award (International Students), UWA, School of Design (2019-2022)
  • Iran Building of the Year Award for the Khosravian Villa Project (2021)
  • Final shortlist in RIBA President’s Awards for research (2020) based on my PhD research with the title “ Politics, next pedagogy and global crises” (2020)
  • First rank Poster in The Symposium of Next School/Atmosphere 2020, Emerging and Experimental Agendas in Design Education, University of Manitoba (2020)
  • SPARK Teaching Fellowship, UWA, School of Design (2020)
  • FABLE Teaching Fellowship, UWA, School of Design (2019)
  • Dean s Fellowship Award, University of Maryland (2018)
  • The first rank in the international Architectural competition of the Padideh Kish project (2014)

EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE

  • Casual Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) (Feb 2024-Present)
  • Project Architect, The Site Foreman Architects (Sydney Architects & Project Managers) (Feb 2023- May 2024)
  • Casual Lecturer, School of Design, University of Western Australia (UWA) (Feb 2019-December 2022)
  • Research assistant, School of Design, University of Melbourne (April 2022-July 2022)
  • Research assistant, School of the built environment, Deakin University (Sep 2021-March 2022)
  • Lecturer, School of Architecture and Urbanism, Azad University of Mashhad, Iran (Jan 2010-July 2018)
  • Senior Architect, Bana Pars, International consultant, management & construction Company, Mashhad, Iran (Jan 2012-July 2018)

TEACHING & PEDAGOGY

  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Structure and System SEM-2 2022
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Drawing History, SEM-2 2022
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Modern Architecture SEM-1 2022
  • Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Architecture Studio One SEM-2 2021
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Drawing History, SEM-2 2021
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Structure and System SEM-2 2021
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Independent Dissertation SEM-1 2019
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Independent Dissertation SEM-2 2019
  • Tutor. Dept. of Architecture, School of Design, UWA. Course: Structure and System SEM-2 2019
  • Lecturer. Dept. of Architecture and Art, Azad University of Mashhad (2010-2018). During this period, I taught different units at undergraduate and graduate levels such as
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Architectural Design Studio One SEM 2 (2010-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Architectural Design Studio Two SEM 1 (2010-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Architectural Design Studio Four SEM 2 (2014-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Architectural Design Studio Five SEM 1 (2014-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Basic Architectural Drawings and Representations SEM 1 (2010-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Modern and contemporary Architectural history and theory SEM 2 (2010-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Methods and Process on Architecture Design-SEM 1 (2010-2018)
  • Unit Coordinator. Studio Coordinator. Dept. of Architecture, Azad University of Mashhad. Course: Final Dissertation (2014-2018)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Book:
  • Ali Javid, “The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran: From Pedagogical Revolution to Revolutionary Pedagogy (1960-1990)”, in series: Routledge Research in Architecture, London, August 2024.
  • Edited Books:
    -Baires Raffaelli, “The Fast Guide to Architectural Form”, translated and edited by Ali Javid, “ Basics of Form”, Kasra Publishing, http://www.Kasrapublishing.ir, 2020
  • Elham Emami, Azadeh Ebrahimi, Hotel Design Tips, drawn and edited by Ali Javid, Kasra Publishing, http://www.Kasrapublishing.ir, 2018
  • Elham Emami, Azadeh Ebrahimi, School Design Tips, drawn and edited by Ali Javid, Kasra Publishing, http://www.Kasrapublishing.ir, 2018
  • Book Chapters:
  • Ali Javid, (2026) “Crossed Histories in the Studio: Iranian Students and the Diversification of the Architectural Canon in University of Rome Design Studios in the 1970s”, Diversifying the Architectural Canon with “Crossed Histories”, Editors: Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink and Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete. Gta Verlag, November 2026.
  • Ali Javid, Nigel Westbrook “Pedagogy for Others”: The Howard University and architecture pedagogy for Third World in 1970s, in Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture, Felipe Hernández, Itohan Osayimwese, December 2025.
  • Ali Mozaffari, Ali Javid “Melli University and the Dynamics of Architectural Education in the 1960s Iran” in The Hitory of Architectural Education in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa), Farhan Karim, Mohammad Gharipour, University of Edinburgh, December 2024.
  • Ali Javid (2020) “Design as Crossword puzzle solving: the role of game in merging research and Design, Chapter 10, in Routledge Companion for Games in Architecture and Urban Planning: Tools for Design, Teaching, and Research. Brković Dodig, M. & Groat, L. N. (eds.). New York: Routledge, (2020)
  • Journals and Conference proceedings:
  • Ali Javid, (2025): “From Crisis to Continuity: Civic pedagogy in AA and La Sapienza in 1980s”, Educating Civic Architects, Editors Rafael Longoria, Michelangelo Sabatino, Journal of Architecture Education (JAE), 79:2, December 2025.
  • Ali Javid (2021) “From French atelier to Italian studio: The impact of Italian pedagogy and archaeology on architectural pedagogy revolution in Iran”, The proceedings of The 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), UWA, Perth, Australia, July 2021
  • Ali Javid (2021) “The Architectural Curriculum Between Two Revolutions: From West to Islamic Curriculum”, the proceedings of Schools of Thought: Rethinking Architectural Pedagogy, University of Oklahoma, USA
  • Ali Javid (2020) Next School: Decolonized Design Studios; New Spatial Design of Agents, The Symposium of Next School/Atmosphere , Emerging and Experimental Agendas in Design Education, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Ali Javid (2018) Creativity in Architecture Design Education: Design as puzzle solving, The International Journal of Design Education, Volume 8, Issue 2
    Conference presentations and invited talks:
  • Ali Javid (2023) Reconstructing the future: from archaeological artefacts to architectural pedagogy, stories of situated pedagogy in architecture, Istanbul Technical University, 3-4 October 2023
  • Ali Javid (2022) From Pedagogical Revolution to Revolutionary Pedagogy: The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy from the 1963 White Revolution to the 1979 Revolution in Iran, DocTalks*MoMa, 6 December 2022
  • Ali Javid (2022) How pedagogy says what architecture is, University of Binaloud, Mashhad, Iran, April 2022
  • Ali Javid (2021) Age of OTHERS, ARCHIPOD #07 – THE EMERGING ERA OF ARCHITECTURE, UWA, July 2021. http://localcode.org/2021/06/archipod-07-the-emerging-era-of-architecture/
  • Ali Javid (2021) UniverCity: a Radical project, University of Binaloud, Mashhad, Iran, 15 December 2021.
  • Ali Javid (2020) The Revolutionary studio: When a design studio acts as an agent, SAHANZ PhD Colloquium, University of Melbourne, July 2020.
  • Ali Javid (2020) The Architectural Curriculum Between two Revolutions: From West to Islamic Curriculum, Schools of Thought: Rethinking Architectural Pedagogy, University of Oklahoma, USA, March 2020.
  • Ali Javid (2020) The Revolution of pedagogy: From Beaux-Arts Atelier to Italian studio, The 37th Conference of the Society of Architectural historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), UWA, Perth, Australia, September 2020
  • Ali Javid (2019) What is a Society of design studio? The PhD Colloquium, UWA, School of Design, August 2019
  • Ali Javid (2019) Design as a puzzle solving process, AIA Convention 2017, Orlando, Florida, USA,
  • Ali Javid (2019) An Architectural curriculum as a social artefact, the international conference Education, Design and Practice: Understanding Skills in a Complex World, New York, New Jersey, USA, June 2019
  • Ali Javid (2015) Sequence as Structure: organizing character, time and space, 9th international conference at Design Principles and Practices, University Centre of Chicago, Chicago, USA, March 2015
  • Ali Javid (2014) Creativity in Architecture Design Education: Design as puzzle solving, 8th international conference at Design Principles and Practices, UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada, January 2014
  • Ali Javid (2011) Sketch; instrument of Thought, 3rd National Conference Architectural Education, Fine Art University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  • Creative Outcomes and Social Media Platforms:
  • Architecture as pedagogy (https://architectureaspedagogy.com/) is a personal research project to present and draw a spatial network of pedagogies which emerged during socio-political changes, and expanded the boundaries of architecture discipline. During running (since 2020) this website, I have presented different lectures about these radical pedagogies (since 1968 up to now) from different architects-educators such as Aldo Rossi, Oswald Ungers, Colin Rowe, Peter Wilson, John Hejduk and others on different social media platforms such as Instagram pages of diverse universities and educational institutions.
  • Rebels in Italian architecture schools: the 1963 student protest and changing architectural education at Italy
  • City as a pedagogical project: Aldo Rossi’s architectural pedagogy
  • Alvin Boyarsky, AA and Avant-Gard pedagogy in the 1970s
  • Informed objects: Peter Wilson and his experimental pedagogy at AA
  • Unreal pedagogy: John Hejduk at Cooper Union
  • From Texas rangers to collage city: Coline Rowe’s architectural pedagogy
  • Form follows theme: Oswald Ungers, Berlin summer school and Berlin as a green archipelago

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