Tag: proposte

  • Experimental forms of intensive teaching delivery: the WeDARCH Laboratory

    The WeDarch Laboratory is an experimental intensive teaching programme designed as an alternative to the traditional Architectural and Urban Design Laboratory model established by the Ministerial Decree of 24 February 1993. The University City of Palermo was chosen as the location for the experiment, a large area crossed by a dense vegetation system, which extends…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Building narratives for communities

    The world of architectural education is becoming more complex with each passing year. At the turn of the millennium, design culture found itself having to face challenges that once seemed far from the world of “bella forma”, of an architecture that, at least in Europe, until not long ago spoke of the autonomy of the…

  • Coherence and the role of the design studio

    Recent history has shown that, in the specific case of the most genuinely original educational experiences in the field of architecture, what defines the character, motivation, specificity, and all the peculiar features of experimental teaching are identified simply with a school, not with a department, and even less with a degree program. On the other…

  • Shifting identities

    I believe that, in order to try to define the role of the design studio in a school of architecture, it is first necessary to ask what the meaning of design is in relation to the current conditions of urban space, and more generally, of inhabited space. These are ever-changing conditions that are shaped by…

  • The design studio as a research program

    “Sense of possibility”: without that, the pedagogy of design studios would make no sense, precisely. With the 1993 reform, courses in architectural composition and design began to be called studios because it was recognized that architectural design is learned by doing; but perhaps it was not stated just as clearly that in design studios, doing…