Browsing Faculty of the Built Environment by Author "Olweny, Mark R. O."
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498: Integrating Sustainability and Environmental Design in an African Architecture Curriculum:
Olweny, Mark R. O. (Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 2008-10-28)While the majority of Ugandans live in energy poverty, contemporary architecture in the country is for the most part energy inefficient. Progress and development is shown through the inclusion of air-conditioners, while ... -
Environmental Sustainable Design and Energy Efficiency in Architecture Education in East Africa
Olweny, Mark R. O. (2013)The inclusion of Environmental Sustainable Design (ESD) in architectural education is an important paradigmatic shift for contemporary architecture education, in view of growing concerns for Energy Efficiency (EE) and ... -
Ethics of a Brick: Ethical Positions in Built Environment Education in Uganda
Olweny, Mark R. O. (School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK, 2009-09-09)Architecture has among its goals, to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of society. It is therefore inevitable that ethical decisions are made in the process making architecture. The perceived value of the product, ... -
Investigating the architecture of architecture education in Uganda:
Olweny, Mark R. O. (The Architectural Science Association, ANZAScA, 2010)For all the discourse on the state of architecture education today, little is written about the student experience in architecture schools. With increasing emphasis on Service Quality, Learning Outcomes, and Completion ... -
Listen without prejudice: The design studio as a discursive environment (or) Helping students learn in architecture education
Olweny, Mark R. O. (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), 2020-03)Learning how to learn is an essential part of architectural education, but relies on the confluence of a number of elements: effective teaching, knowledge construction, and active engagement with new knowledge in the design ... -
Socialisation in Architecture Education
Olweny, Mark R. O. (2013)Architecture education is an engaging process; long hours in the design studio, a high level of one-on-one instruction, and intense peer review. The process, which extends over the years of formal education, is instrumental ... -
Socialisation:a perilous transition from novice to architect
Olweny, Mark R. O. (Architectural Education Otherwhere, 2014-08-06)Architectural education includes both formal and informal learning components, instrumental in the transformation of novices into architects. The informal component incorporates tacit aspects of education that can’t be ... -
A study of thermal comfort and thermal preferences in the upland tropical climate of Uganda, Proceedings of 9th Windsor Conference: Making Comfort Relevant, Cumberland Lodge
Olweny, Mark R. O.; Mugagga, L.L; Nedala, T (Windsor, 2016)Upland tropical climates, are often regarded as ‘benign’, but are of increasing concern, particularly with regard to thermal comfort in the context of climate change induced thermal comfort of university students in the ... -
Technology and Architecture Education in Uganda
Olweny, Mark R. O. (The Architectural Science Association ANZAScA, 2006)Architecture education is a relatively new undertaking in Uganda. Despite this opportunity to develop an updated curriculum and pedagogy, an old paradigm continues to persist; isolating the teaching of architectural ... -
To Build or Not to Build: Going Live is [Not] Just Being Practical!
Ahimbisibwe, Achilles; Olweny, Mark R. O.; Ndibwami, Alex; Thomas, Paul; Lubingo, Mathieu; Katta, Jude (Association of Architectural Educators, 2014)Increasingly students and faculty alike are calling for a “hands-on” approach to architecture and building construction as an integral part of the architectural education. Schools of architecture have implemented courses ...