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Focusing on its early years under Kappe&rsquo;s leadership and the context of the social, cultural, and ecological idealism of the 1960s, the culture of the emerging school became an alternative model for training architects. Building off of the school&rsquo;s founding premise, that in providing freedom through self-study it would be possible to produce both architects and architecture, the book shows how SCI-Arc utilised the &ldquo;college without walls&rdquo; concept, a variation on a pedagogical approach popular in the 1970s. SCI-Arc&rsquo;s institutional culture adjusted over time, and it increasingly relied on the versatility of the institutional framework to forge its pedagogy. The principles engendered by the college without walls concept created challenges over the operation of the school and provided opportunities for the creative resolution of those challenges by empowering experimentation. 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