The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South resituates and recenters an array of pedagogic approaches that are either produced or proliferate from the ’Global South’ while antagonizing the linguistic, epistemological and disciplinary conceits that ensured that these pedagogies remained marginalized.

Dr. Harriet Harriss (RIBA, PFHEA, Ph.D., FRSA) is an award-winning educator, qualified architect, and the former Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn. Her teaching, research, and writing focus on pioneering pedagogic models for design education and exploring the intersectional edge of social justice and the climate crisis theories and practices, themes that emerged from two of her highly-regarded texts, Radical Pedagogies: Architectural Education & the British Tradition(2015) and A Gendered Profession(2016). Dr. Harriss’ advocacy for diversity and inclusion within design education was further recognized by Dezeen Magazine, which identified Dean Harriss as one of the Top Ten Champions for Women in Architecture and Design in 2019. Her publication, Architects After Architecture(2020), won the Annual Bates Prize for Architectural Media. Her recent and forthcoming publications include Greta Magnusson Grossman - Modern Design from Sweden to California(2021), Working at the Intersection: The Architecture of the Post-Anthropocene (2022)100 Women Architects (2023), Architectures Afterlife (2023) and The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (2023). Combined, these texts extrapolate upon her growing expertise in archival activism, climate crisis curriculum, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In her own words, Dr. Harriss argues that there can be ’no climate justice without climate justice’ and that ’the co-creation of a climate crisis curriculum is the most pressing imperative facing architectural education and practice.’

Ashraf M. Salama (FRSA, FHEA, PhD) is a Full Professor in Architecture and the Head of the School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has led three schools of architecture in Egypt, Qatar and the UK, two of which he has founded, and was the Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, UK (2014-2020). With experience spanning across many contexts, he was the Director of research and consulting at Adams Group Architects in Charlotte, NC. Ashraf has published 14 authored and edited books, including Demystifying Doha (2013), Architecture Beyond Criticism (2014), Spatial Design Education (2015), Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf (2019), Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies (2020) and Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism (2021). He is the UIA 2017 recipient of Jean Tschumi Prize for Excellence in Architectural Education and Criticism.

Ane Gonzalez Lara is an Assistant Professor of undergraduate Architecture at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a registered Architect in Texas and Spain. Ane is the co-founder of Idyll Studio, balancing in her professional work social and cultural concerns with extensive formal and material research. As part of her studio teachings, she has developed academic research initiatives that have examined the United States-Mexican border and the Korean demilitarized zone. Ane received her Master-equivalent degree from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, Navarra, Spain. Prior to working at Pratt, she taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of Houston. Ane’s research interests include pedagogy and social and climate justice topics as they relate to the built environment.