Tag: esperienze

  • Layering Contexts

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Maria Conen. LA: To begin: could you describe how you typically organize your design studio? Are there particular characteristics of your approach that you consider specific to the ETH context – or to your own architectural vision – when compared to other institutions? MC: I can say that the teaching…

  • Material Typologies

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Tina Gregoric. LA: In light of current debates on architectural pedagogy, could you outline how you conceive and structure a design studio – addressing organizational frameworks, pedagogical objectives, and the ensemble of methodological tools – and indicate which pressing epistemological or societal challenges you consider most urgent for studio-based learning…

  • Teaching from within: architecture as process and practice

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Thomas Padmanabhan. In a context of multiple crises like the one we are experiencing, architecture has little room to shape public discourse. The contemporary design process – so complex and shaped by countless variables – makes the coexistence of teaching and professional practice one of the few viable ways to explore alternatives…

  • Architecture as social-material practice

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Niall McLaughlin. LA: In your opinion, how should a contemporary architectural design studio be structured in terms of its work over an academic semester and its day-to-day practices? Which tools should it prioritise? In particular, I am curious to know whether physical models, hand-drawn sketches, digital renderings, immersive simulations, data-driven…

  • 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…

  • Form is not enough

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Bernadette Krejs. The architectural design studio is at a critical juncture. As the field of architecture confronts its role in ecological collapse and social inequity, traditional pedagogical approaches centred on form and individual authorship are increasingly being seen as insufficient. Bernadette Krejs of the Institute of Housing and Design at…

  • Questioning typologies, or the hybrid future of architectural design

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Andreas Lechner. LA: What challenges related to the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio confront today? AL: I consider myself a hybrid practitioner – someone who deliberately navigates and often blurs the boundaries between theory, practice, and pedagogy. Yet no matter how broad the investigative field, the…

  • Precision and experimentation in the design studio

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Mikael Bergquist LA: What issues in the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio address today? MB: Architectural education needs to address many questions. Social: How should we live together?; questions about technical issues and material; sustainability and adoptability; how to work with the existing. We must also…

  • We don’t have all the answers – we explore together

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Marius Grootveld. LA: How does granting students autonomy over their research trajectories impact motivation, critical engagement, and the coherence of studio discourse, and how should this autonomy be balanced with structured guidance? MG: At the beginning of each studio, I try to instil a sense of responsibility in the students…

  • 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…