ABSTRACT
Being part of an architecture course that straddles continents and awards dual or joint degrees validated by the RIBA can be a good idea. As architecture and its education surge toward increased global interfaces, transnational education is critical in feeding the cultural agency of architecture. Most architecture schools have connections with schools in various parts of the world. These arrangements can take the form of: collaborations between one university and another, foreign campuses for a home university, a home campus for a foreign university and arrangements for student and/or staff exchange. The RIBA validates architecture courses across the world, with the locations of these courses expanding yearly, including Demark, Lebanon, Greece, Egypt, France, Iceland, Malaysia, Peru, Poland and South Korea. At the Cooper Union the dialogues with Americans who had studied European architecture and Europeans in America was enlightening and opened new perspectives.
