Tag: didattica

  • 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;…

  • 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…

  • The design studio as a research program

    “Sense of possibility”: without that, the pedagogy of design studios would make no sense, precisely. With the 1993 reform, courses in architectural composition and design began to be called studios because it was recognized that architectural design is learned by doing; but perhaps it was not stated just as clearly that in design studios, doing…