Tag: didattica
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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…
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For vertical coordination: Laboratorio34
Laboratorio34 is an educational experiment, conceived and coordinated by Andrea Sciascia, which saw, for the academic years 2022-23 and 2023-24, coordination between the third and fourth year Architectural and Urban Design laboratories (Laboratorio34). This experiment, which aims to bring together a large number of students and teachers around the same theme and project area, draws…
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Experimental forms of intensive teaching delivery: the WeDARCH Laboratory
The WeDarch Laboratory is an experimental intensive teaching programme designed as an alternative to the traditional Architectural and Urban Design Laboratory model established by the Ministerial Decree of 24 February 1993. The University City of Palermo was chosen as the location for the experiment, a large area crossed by a dense vegetation system, which extends…
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Introduction to the project: the IncipitLab experience
The need to establish IncipitLab – coordination of the first-year Architectural Design Laboratories of the three-year, master’s and single-cycle master’s degree courses in Architecture, and three-year and/or master’s degree courses in Construction Engineering-Architecture – stems from a series of teaching experiences gained in this specific academic year, which it was appropriate to reflect on. This…
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Boîtes-en-valises. Discontinuous genealogies for Venice, Berlin, New York
Signs of presage Presage is neither a definitive announcement nor a vision shaped by mystical or teleological determinism. A sign that alludes to something not yet revealed, praesagium indicates the possibility of reading in observable facts – which are remnants, interruptions, silences and failures – clues to futures that are potentially already inscribed in the…
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Transmitting and innovating: the teaching tradition in Venice
The word tradition derives from the Latin tradere, meaning “to hand down” or “to transmit”. Tradition is therefore a word inherent to the role of “educators”, understood in its broadest sense, especially in the teaching of architectural design. Tradition in design is the transmission of knowledge that must take place in the design workshops of…
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Rewriting a pre-existing text by composing syntax
The theme of the single-family home has always been a particular area of design experimentation, allowing architects to explore new expressive and linguistic horizons in architecture. It is a field of research that is somewhat isolated, probably because it requires reflection on the place where human thoughts, memories and dreams interact, but at the same…
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Invention exercises. The project of a house for oneself
Choosing to dedicate the first-year workshops to the theme of house design means immediately placing a fundamental question for the discipline of architecture at the centre of the students’ reflection: the question of the meaning of living. “What does it mean to live?” is an unavoidable and inexhaustible question, for which there is no definitive…
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Living in the landscape, inhabited by the landscape
The architecture of the house is, in general terms, the theme around which the teaching activities of Architectural Design Laboratory I are structured. This course is conceived as an integrated course that sees the interaction of the disciplines of Architectural Composition with those of Architectural History and Construction Technology. Reflection on that architectural organism that…
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La centralità del progetto. Esperienze di sperimentazione didattica presso il Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo (2015–2025)
Sin dai tempi della sua fondazione (1944), la Facoltà di Architettura di Palermo ha posto al centro della propria attenzione la teoria, le tecniche e i metodi di erogazione della didattica del progetto di architettura. Ne sono testimonianza alcune modifiche ordinamentali ed esperienze di coordinamento didattico, sviluppate tra gli anni Sessanta e gli anni Novanta…