Hania, Crete, Greece 3-6 September 2005
Invitation
The Eighth Meeting of Heads of Schools of Architecture in Europe entitled "Present Positions (in) forming future Challenges: Synthesis of and Directions towards the European Higher Architectural Education Area" will take place in Hania, Crete from 3 to 6 September 2005. We expect this meeting will be of particular interest as its main objective is to create and disseminate a synthesis of the work we have all done in the past three years, from the moment that this event was embraced by the Socrates Erasmus Thematic Networks Project ENHSA.
This year's event coincides with the EAAE's 30th anniversary, thus providing us with an opportunity to attempt to explore the entire spectrum of our activities and to examine the perspectives of our future activities and challenges.
For eight continuous years the Heads' Meeting in Hania has generated a broader milieu for the support of Schools of Architecture by offering a valuable and credible "observatory" that surveyed the tendencies and dynamics of architectural education in Europe. At all previous Meetings we attempted to record the convergence and divergence that exists among schools in relation to the general principles, values and priorities in the education of the architect; to map the strategies adopted by schools of architecture for the organization of architectural studies with the perspective to shape the contemporary European profile of architectural education; to scrutinize the structure of architectural curricula in Europe and to circumscribe the competences and the learning outcomes of their graduates; to observe the differences in the evaluation and assessment methods adopted by the schools; to inspect the contemporary profile of the architect and to examine how the education offered by the schools will be able to create it.
This extensive amassment of information and data urges for a creative synthesis so that we will be in a position to discover where our schools are placed in relation to the new European Higher Architectural Education Area. We need this synthesis to see where we are, where we are going, what we have to do and what we need to do for our future in the competitive environment of architectural education in Europe. For this reason, it was decided that we should invite eminent Professors and personalities involved in architectural education to present their syntheses of the past three years proceedings. As this published material was broadly accepted as a very rich source of information we expect that these syntheses will provide a fruitful ground for this year's debate. We would like to remind you that the Meeting is not a conference with paper presentations but primarily a milieu for exchange of views and dialogue. This time it is absolutely imperative to arrive at coherent conclusions, which will significantly support Head's of Schools of Architecture in their decision making process. The themes on which these syntheses will be formulated are described in the attached agenda.
Heads of Schools and Program coordinators are kindly requested to send by e-mail or fax as soon as possible and not later than 10 July 2005 the registration form . In case that they cannot participate in the event, they are asked to identify another person, related to the administration of academic issues, to represent their School. It is very important to have a broader range of schools from all regions of Europe in order to have more representative results and conclusions.
As. Prof. Constantin Spiridonidis
ENHSA Coordinator
