Tag: esperienze

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Learning by teaching

    Some words, much more than others, allow us to structure reflections that often run the risk of being taken for granted because they are commonly used or belong to everyday life. Learning and teaching seem, nowadays, to be terms that have lost their meaning; contrary to this trend, however, they preserve the core of the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ἐνιαυτόσ or the long time required to train an architect

    “The essence of the architectural problem today is not the search for impossible connections with the past, but the full exploitation, with a free spirit, of the construction possibilities that technical progress has given us. Above all, it is necessary to give soul and aesthetic expressiveness to new building techniques, fully developing their unlimited richness.…

  • Exceptions. The case of Thematic Laboratories

    The thematic laboratory, in its current form, evolved from a project within the Master’s Degree programme in Architecture Built Environment Interiors (ACI) and its English-language counterpart Architecture Built Environment Interiors (BEI) at the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. The course, which began in the 2017-2018 academic year,…

  • Three studios 2. Teaching design research

    When understood as a research operation, the teaching of the project allows us to advance some reflections on the construction of an idea of space, reflecting on what John Hejduk explained during the exhibition and in the catalogue Education of an Architect: a point of view, regarding the exercise of the Cube Problem: “the student…