Tag: didattica
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Teaching architecture in a fragmented world
Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation con Wolfgang Brune. LA: What issues in the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio address today? WB: The question is related to all the well-known general issues that we have to deal with today: Sustainability, recycling, emissions reduction, resource conservation, social responsibility and so on. That’s very true.…
-
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…
-
Il laboratorio di progettazione. Note per un progetto didattico
Come si progetta un laboratorio di progettazione?Per rispondere a questa domanda bisogna prima capire cosa sia il laboratorio e quale sia la sua specificità rispetto alle altre forme di insegnamento immersive, esperienziali e interattive che sono storicamente consolidate in questo campo. Tra storia e teoria, normativa e pedagogia, il volume prova a dare una definizione…
-
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…