Tag: pedagogia

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Precision and experimentation in the design studio

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Mikael Bergquist Mikael Bergquist envisages the design studio as a shared environment in which architectural knowledge is developed through small groups, pair work and the consistent use of a designated space. At KTH in Stockholm, social issues, materials, technology, sustainability, and working with existing structures are considered alongside the discipline’s…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…