Tag: saggi

  • 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…

  • The capacity for (general) vision as a necessary specialism

    I will begin with a statement that I know today risks being seen as outdated: the design studio is and must continue to be the “backbone” of architectural studies. […] Not even the recent reform of the degree classes introduced by Ministerial Decrees no. 1648 and no. 1649, respectively for bachelor’s and master’s degrees, in…

  • 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…

  • Architecture in a small school

    A contribution that seems interesting to me, regarding the experimentation that can be carried out within Design Studios, is the one we have been developing for several years now in the Master’s Degree course active at the Mantua Territorial Campus. […] The course was conceived around a prevailing theme concerning the relationship between architectural design…

  • 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 project for a new degree program

    For the new Master’s degree program in Architecture for Communities, Territories and the Environment at DIARC, we chose to begin by outlining the fields and contexts in which an architect can operate today, beyond traditional areas of action, focusing carefully on the present, on the ongoing social and cultural changes, on humanity and the environment;…

  • 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…

  • Experimental pedagogy and design studio

    Rethinking pedagogy at an experimental level means renegotiating a field of themes and practices in order to train architects capable of confronting the challenges of the contemporary world and projecting them into the future. This entails reestablishing a creative balance between the construction sector and architecture as one of the principal inventive practices contributing to…