ABSTRACT
In 2015 the NSW Architects registration board in Australia commissioned a report on the value that architecture brings to the national economy. At a time when the Australian government was promoting its innovation agenda, the report was established in order to understand Architecture’s contribution to a economy based on new forms of practice emerging in an paradigm. Architectural education is in a perpetual state of crisis it seems, yet little has changed since the Ecole des Beaux-Arts studio model began to train architects in 1648. New software aside, architecture as a discourse has remained remarkably stable as an education and a practice, unlike other sectors such as banking and finance, which have radically changed in the last 50 years. Prototyping Practice operates with the strong desire that a new generation of graduate architects has to make a meaningful contribution to society.
