Categoria Atlas: Courses

  • Material Typologies

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Tina Gregoric. LA: In light of current debates on architectural pedagogy, could you outline how you conceive and structure a design studio – addressing organizational frameworks, pedagogical objectives, and the ensemble of methodological tools – and indicate which pressing epistemological or societal challenges you consider most urgent for studio-based learning…

  • 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…

  • Precision and experimentation in the design studio

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Mikael Bergquist LA: What issues in the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio address today? MB: Architectural education needs to address many questions. Social: How should we live together?; questions about technical issues and material; sustainability and adoptability; how to work with the existing. We must also…

  • Teaching, conflicts, ecology

    Maria Masi in conversation with Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel. MM: Your work moves between architectural design, academic research, and intensive teaching activity, and is marked by a consistent interest in the relationship between space, ecologies, and society. How do these experiences influence the structure of your courses, and what relationships do they weave between…

  • The studio in numbers

    The role of the design studio within architecture schools is characterized by a dual identity. On one hand, it is a foundational and strongly constitutive element of the educational offering for students, who find in the laboratory the opportunity to engage and challenge themselves with the discipline of design. The design laboratory, in fact, defines…