Tag: interviste

  • 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…

  • Utilitas, firmitas and venustas

    Alberto Bologna in conversation with Andrea Valeriani AV: The first-year workshop is probably the most complex of all those that a teacher has to deal with during the course of study because it has the dual task of teaching students both a design method and the ability to represent and communicate it. How is your Workshop…

  • Reconsidering hierarchies and happiness in the project

    EB: Jason Hilgefort, founder of L+CC (Land+Civilisation Compositions), since we met at the Shenzhen Biennale in 2019, we have often discussed the value of projects, both in professional practice and in university classrooms, as something that should be broader than architecture itself. In your case, these ideas have also led you to develop local activism…

  • Layering Contexts

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Maria Conen. Knowing a place, before delving into the complex process of designing architecture, represents one of the first fundamental acts that architects should indulge in. For Maria Conen, observation is a layered practice in which the existing conditions of a place are approached with equal attention, allowing different realities…

  • Material Typologies

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Tina Gregoric. What does it mean to place material conditions at the origin of architectural education? In this interview, Tina Gregoric presents the design studio as a framework that resists standardisation and must be recalibrated each time in relation to the site, the topic and the scale. Within the condensed…

  • 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. What distance, or what proximity, exists between the tangible conditions that architecture must address and the possibilities for speculation within a design studio? This question forms the basis of the interview with Níall McLaughlin, which explores the ways in which a project emerges at the intersection of materials,…

  • Rigor and synthesis

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Nuno Valentim Lopes. The interview with Nuno Valentim Lopes outlines a pedagogical position grounded in rigour, continuity, and synthesis, framing the FAUP in Porto as a school where architectural education is built around collective work and a strong foundational formation. The design studio emerges as a shared framework integrating design,…

  • 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…

  • Architecture within uncertainty

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Christoph Grafe. As a historian and theorist of architecture, Christoph Grafe reflects on the design studio as a pedagogical framework in which reuse and adaptation are considered from cultural, aesthetic and technical perspectives. He emphasises the importance of balancing student freedom with a clear, adaptable structure, and highlights the role…