Autore/Autrice: Luigiemanuele Amabile

  • Rethinking the knowledge of form

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation con Nana Biamah Ofosu. Architecture, in Nana Biamah-Ofosu’s account, can no longer be understood through form alone. Drawing on her teaching between Kingston University London and the Architectural Association, she reframes architectural knowledge as a field shaped by identity, history, and lived experience, asking insistently who architecture represents and who it…

  • Pensare attraverso la forma. Tra didattica e ricerca al Politecnico di Bari

    Pensare attraverso la forma. Tra didattica e ricerca al Politecnico di Bari

    Interrogandoci sui valori che informano il nostro cammino, nella pratica e nell’insegnamento dell’architettura, emerge una questione cruciale, se non fondativa, per il nostro stesso agire, che impone la necessità di collocarsi, di prendere posizione. Qual è, oggi, il ruolo riconosciuto all’architettura? Quali sono i modi e i valori della sua esistenza? Domande difficili e forse…

  • Layering Contexts

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Maria Conen. Knowing a place, before delving into the complex process of designing architecture, represents one of the first fundamental acts that architects should indulge in. For Maria Conen, observation is a layered practice in which the existing conditions of a place are approached with equal attention, allowing different realities…

  • Material Typologies

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Tina Gregoric. What does it mean to place material conditions at the origin of architectural education? In this interview, Tina Gregoric presents the design studio as a framework that resists standardisation and must be recalibrated each time in relation to the site, the topic and the scale. Within the condensed…

  • Teaching from within: architecture as process and practice

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Thomas Padmanabhan. In a context of multiple crises like the one we are experiencing, architecture has little room to shape public discourse. The contemporary design process – so complex and shaped by countless variables – makes the coexistence of teaching and professional practice one of the few viable ways to explore alternatives…

  • Architecture as social-material practice

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Niall McLaughlin. What distance, or what proximity, exists between the tangible conditions that architecture must address and the possibilities for speculation within a design studio? This question forms the basis of the interview with Níall McLaughlin, which explores the ways in which a project emerges at the intersection of materials,…

  • Rigor and synthesis

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Nuno Valentim Lopes. The interview with Nuno Valentim Lopes outlines a pedagogical position grounded in rigour, continuity, and synthesis, framing the FAUP in Porto as a school where architectural education is built around collective work and a strong foundational formation. The design studio emerges as a shared framework integrating design,…

  • Form is not enough

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Bernadette Krejs. The architectural design studio is at a critical juncture. As the field of architecture confronts its role in ecological collapse and social inequity, traditional pedagogical approaches centred on form and individual authorship are increasingly being seen as insufficient. Bernadette Krejs of the Institute of Housing and Design at…

  • Architecture within uncertainty

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Christoph Grafe. As a historian and theorist of architecture, Christoph Grafe reflects on the design studio as a pedagogical framework in which reuse and adaptation are considered from cultural, aesthetic and technical perspectives. He emphasises the importance of balancing student freedom with a clear, adaptable structure, and highlights the role…

  • Questioning typologies, or the hybrid future of architectural design

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Andreas Lechner. Moving between theory, practice and pedagogy, Andreas Lechner describes the design studio as a place where architecture engages with reality while retaining its poetic and critical agency. The project is at the heart of this approach, serving as a medium through which ecological urgency, social engagement and everyday…