Tag: proposte

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…