Tag: pedagogia

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Architecture within uncertainty

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Christoph Grafe. LA: Which challenges in our built and natural environments should today’s architectural design studios engage with? CG: Reuse and adaptation of buildings – as cultural, aesthetic, and technical questions; the needs and preferences of a culturally diverse society; regional appropriateness; the value of labour in building, and the…

  • 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…

  • Crush-up: collaborations for architectural futures

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Ignacio Borrego LA: Which challenges – both within the physical context and the wider natural environment – ought contemporary architectural design studios to engage with, and why are these concerns pressing for the formation of tomorrow’s architects? IB: We believe at our department (CoLab – Collaborative Design Laboratory) at the…

  • 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. LA: What issues in the built and natural environment should an architectural design studio address today? WB: The question is related to all the well-known general issues that we have to deal with today: Sustainability, recycling, emissions reduction, resource conservation, social responsibility and so on. That’s very true.…