Authored by Ali Javid and Nigel Westbrook, this chapter delves into the pioneering and unaltered narrative of inclusive pedagogy as developed at Howard University between 1970 and 1980.
Howard University, a leading centre for training African American students since 1924, has always been a hot-bed for protests against racial discrimination and gender inequality, but after 1968, it also became a base for Third World students protesting against colonialism and cultural-economic hegemony by Western powers in their countries. This atmosphere of the university attracted many Third World students and teachers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East to participate in its faculty of architecture during the 1970s. Subsequently, by gradually changing the faculty, the curriculum, and even the subjects of the projects, the School of Architecture endeavoured to address Third World countries’ needs to shape their future. This chapter examines Howard’s inclusive architectural pedagogy in the 1970s, which was implemented under the slogan “Education for All”, and investigates its pedagogical response to the participation of students of multiple races and ethnicities from the Third World. Finally, the chapter will chart the impact of its pedagogy upon the subsequent work and approaches of Iranian architectural alumni, Kamran Diba and Khosrow Moradian, during the political crisis and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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