Categoria Atlas: Schools

  • Rigor and synthesis

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Nuno Valentim Lopes. LA: What do you think makes FAUP in Porto unique compared to other European schools you’ve been in contact with? NV: I believe that FAUP is one of the last strongholds of the Beaux-Arts approach to education in contemporary Europe. Rather than focusing on individual figures, our…

  • The studio environment

    In American schools, particularly those we might define as elite, there has always been – or there was for a long time – a strong emphasis on experimentation, meaning an attempt to push boundaries in order to explore ways and approaches to thinking about architecture that presumably are not immediately applicable in the professional field…

  • Notes for a systematics of the educational project

    I have always been deeply interested in discussing pedagogy; I believe it’s crucial to reflect on this topic. Not only from a theoretical standpoint but especially starting from how I personally have addressed practical problems that have arisen in this field across the various universities where I have taught and in relation to the role…

  • The Italian difference in architectural education

    Teaching experience in other faculties, in other places, in other countries has indeed been essential for me to understand whether and what the differences are compared to our system. But before addressing this issue, I want to touch on a specifically Italian matter that worries me greatly and concerns the present; a negative difference compared…