Categoria Atlas: Programs

  • Crush-up: collaborations for architectural futures

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Ignacio Borrego LA: Which challenges – both within the physical context and the wider natural environment – ought contemporary architectural design studios to engage with, and why are these concerns pressing for the formation of tomorrow’s architects? IB: We believe at our department (CoLab – Collaborative Design Laboratory) at the…

  • Designing transitions: transdisciplinary urban and territorial pedagogies

    Konstantinos Venis in conversation with Nancy Couling and Tommaso Pietropolli. KV: The selection criteria were the characteristics and curriculum of your programme. It is a transdisciplinary joint programme focusing on design as a tool of synthesis in a transdisciplinary environment, integrating urban studies, postcolonial thought, the Anthropocene, and interdisciplinary approaches in site-specific work across urban…

  • Building narratives for communities

    The world of architectural education is becoming more complex with each passing year. At the turn of the millennium, design culture found itself having to face challenges that once seemed far from the world of “bella forma”, of an architecture that, at least in Europe, until not long ago spoke of the autonomy of the…

  • The capacity for (general) vision as a necessary specialism

    I will begin with a statement that I know today risks being seen as outdated: the design studio is and must continue to be the “backbone” of architectural studies. […] Not even the recent reform of the degree classes introduced by Ministerial Decrees no. 1648 and no. 1649, respectively for bachelor’s and master’s degrees, in…

  • Coherence and the role of the design studio

    Recent history has shown that, in the specific case of the most genuinely original educational experiences in the field of architecture, what defines the character, motivation, specificity, and all the peculiar features of experimental teaching are identified simply with a school, not with a department, and even less with a degree program. On the other…

  • Architecture in a small school

    A contribution that seems interesting to me, regarding the experimentation that can be carried out within Design Studios, is the one we have been developing for several years now in the Master’s Degree course active at the Mantua Territorial Campus. […] The course was conceived around a prevailing theme concerning the relationship between architectural design…

  • Shifting identities

    I believe that, in order to try to define the role of the design studio in a school of architecture, it is first necessary to ask what the meaning of design is in relation to the current conditions of urban space, and more generally, of inhabited space. These are ever-changing conditions that are shaped by…

  • The project for a new degree program

    For the new Master’s degree program in Architecture for Communities, Territories and the Environment at DIARC, we chose to begin by outlining the fields and contexts in which an architect can operate today, beyond traditional areas of action, focusing carefully on the present, on the ongoing social and cultural changes, on humanity and the environment;…