There is a newfound interest in architectural education. This AD is a survey of some of the best contemporary architecture student work in the world. The most forward-looking architecture schools worldwide are reinventing pedagogy in the hope of developing radical syllabi that are a rich mix of the virtual and the actual. Design education is changing and adapting to compensate for the new material changes to the discipline, and is being used to disentangle old, outmoded spatial practices and replace them with new paradigms of space and representation. This issue showcases the students and teachers who are pushing the envelope of architecture in extraordinary ways, offering their insights into its future materiality and spatial dexterity. It premieres a new young generation of architects who are likely to become names in the architectural profession and possibly important teachers themselves. Their work has been selected by their own influential teachers of architecture who describe the studio methodologies - and reasons for them - that prompted the work.Contributors: Daniel K Brown, Jane Burry, Nat Chard, Odile Decq, Evan Douglis, Riet Eeckhout, Mark Garcia, Nicolas Hannequin, Perry Kulper, Elena Manferdini, Mark Morris, Hani Rashid, and Michael Young.Featured institutions: A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan; Architectural Association, London; Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London; Carleton University, Ottawa; CONFLUENCE Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris; Cooper Union, New York; University of Greenwich, London; KU Leuven, Belgium; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York; Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles; Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

About the Editor 4Neil SpillerIntroduction 6The Next GenerationCircling the TableNeil SpillerThe Magic of Asking 'What if?' 14Radical Architectural PedagogyElena ManferdiniSome Colours 24Unravelling Thesis ConstructionsPerry KulperAccelerating Towards Abundance 34Planetary Strategies in the Era of the AnthropoceneEvan DouglisDisciplinary Displacements 44The Revaluation of Conventions through the Postgraduate ThesisMichael YoungA Canvas on which to Feast 52A Canadian AdventureNeil SpillerMaking the Means to Draw Out Ideas 60Nat ChardProject Documentaries 68The Rise of the Cinematic PortfolioMark MorrisPost-Operative 'Post-isms' 76Details of the 21st-Century Educations of ArchitecturalistsMark GarciaDrawing on Situational Sites 86Riet EeckhoutBuilding the Future with Architecture 96Nicolas HannequinRe-envisioning Healthcare Urbanism and Architecture 104Hani RashidNew Melbourne Pedagogics 112A Virtual Web of ActionsJane BurryThe Allegorical Architectural Project 120Provocateurs, Propositions and ConfrontationsDaniel K BrownFrom Another Perspective 128Going UndergroundRick GoodingNeil SpillerContributors 134