PREFACE：LEARNING FROM “SPONTANEOUS BUILDINGS”——Teaching Essays of “Informal Living”

“Informal Living” is one of the topics to be selected in the design course for architectural first-year graduate students of Tsinghua University. Since its launch in 2011, this topic, as a pathfinder and practitioner of educational reform for graduate students, has witnessed the transformation of master students from “academic” to “application-based” cultivation and also the deepening process of China’s urbanization.