In Vekllei high schools, architecture is taught not as a prescriptive skill but as a form of expression. Materials, style and even gravity are secondary to the dream of architecture. The point is to demystify and deprofessionalise architecture, which intimidates young people.
By showing non-artsy students that anyone can design an object without fear of being inferior, it helps encourage any nascent interest they might have. The technical skill can always come later.
The “Glass Chain” was a utopian chain letter sent around German expressionist architects in 1920, and I think expressionism could be a useful as a teaching method for otherwise formalised disciplines.