Tag: modi

  • Introduction to the project: the IncipitLab experience

    The need to establish IncipitLab – coordination of the first-year Architectural Design Laboratories of the three-year, master’s and single-cycle master’s degree courses in Architecture, and three-year and/or master’s degree courses in Construction Engineering-Architecture – stems from a series of teaching experiences gained in this specific academic year, which it was appropriate to reflect on. This…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Designing the teaching of the project

    “Designing project teaching” refers to the attempt to equate architectural project teaching strategies with a project itself, which aims to construct a workshop “space” based on a series of assumptions and supporting an idea to be developed at different times and through specific tools. To explore these aspects in greater depth, reference is made below…

  • Living in the laboratory

    «Education today is a great obsession. It is also a great necessity». It is not difficult to apply these words, which sparked debate in the 1960s and 1970s on the American educational process, when the right to education and the need to discuss teaching as a matter of social integration were urgent and deeply political…

  • 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…

  • The conditions for a “cours préparatoire”

    Times and numbers My first reaction concerns the number of students mentioned in the course description. Such a large number makes it difficult to assess the students’ progress – something I consider fundamental – or to carry out a fair evaluation or comparative analysis of the results. At the Politecnico di Milano, we have a…

  • Preparatory work and architectural design

    The development of a first-year architectural design workshop programme is in itself a fundamental undertaking. Not only because it represents the student’s first “encounter” with the design experience, but also because, as the term “workshop” suggests, it requires the transmission of knowledge that is not linear in nature. Rather, it is made up of trials,…