Tag: interviste

  • Questioning typologies, or the hybrid future of architectural design

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Andreas Lechner. Moving between theory, practice and pedagogy, Andreas Lechner describes the design studio as a place where architecture engages with reality while retaining its poetic and critical agency. The project is at the heart of this approach, serving as a medium through which ecological urgency, social engagement and everyday…

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

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Marius Grootveld. Marius Grootveld conceives of the design studio as a collective and cumulative process, in which students develop autonomy within a shared lineage of ideas, rather than through isolated positions. At RWTH Aachen University, each studio builds on the outcomes of previous ones. This allows individual trajectories to emerge…

  • Crush-up: collaborations for architectural futures

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Ignacio Borrego At the Technical University of Berlin, teaching within CoLab conceives of the design studio as an open field of enquiry, rather than a predefined trajectory. Architectural education is framed as an exposure to a variety of questions, methods and tools, enabling students to find their own way through…

  • 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…

  • Teaching repetition

    Valentina Noce in conversation with Andreas Lechner. VN: The first thing I wanted to talk to you about is my struggle when teaching between two kinds of approaches. The first one is almost like a psychological, psychotherapy approach to students – where you act as a kind of disturbing observer. You let the students do what…

  • 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. Shaped by an awareness of the fragmented nature of the contemporary world, Wolfgang Brune’s approach to teaching places architectural education between urgency and continuity. Environmental responsibility, resource awareness and social issues are acknowledged as inevitable, yet they are approached through a return to a fundamental aspiration: designing buildings…

  • 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…