Print Email Facebook Twitter The Delft Prototype Laboratory Title The Delft Prototype Laboratory Author Eekhout, A.J.C.M. Van Swieten, P.M.J. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2016-03-30 Abstract The Prototype Laboratory initiated and maintained by the Chair of Product Development at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, has set an example in architectural education for hands-on ‘learning-by-making’ for students. According to the authors of this book, in the current curriculums time spent on practical work is not rewarded and students are educated in an abstract concept of architecture, not getting a proper feeling for materialization. A semester of designing, engineering, producing and building a prototype with their own hands after their own design often gives students a boost in their education. The Delft Prototype laboratory was the base of around 1,000 students, now professionals. Some architect’s offices make prototypes regularly as their designs are quite experimental and require more insight for the designing architect, before the realization of his building. Prototypes of technical components are often developed parallel to the building process. The Prototype Laboratory at the Faraculty of Architecture was supervised for almost 18 years by Peter van Swieten. He describes his experiences in this book, in collaboration with the initiator, professor Mick Eekhout. Marcel Bilow took over the Bucky Lab, as it is called, from 2012 onwards. Subject Architecture & DesignEngineering To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f6656dd9-9696-4f70-bb58-50e546b923c7 Publisher IOS Press - Delft University Press ISBN 978-1-61499-546-3 Source Research in Design Series, volume 8 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book Rights (c) 2016 Eekhout, A.J.C.M.Van Swieten, P.M.J.IOS PressCC BY-NC 3.0 Files PDF The_Delft_Prototype_Laboratory.pdf 2.93 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f6656dd9-9696-4f70-bb58-50e546b923c7/datastream/OBJ/view