Tag: spazi

  • Rigor and synthesis

    Luigiemanuele Amabile in conversation with Nuno Valentim Lopes. The interview with Nuno Valentim Lopes outlines a pedagogical position grounded in rigour, continuity, and synthesis, framing the FAUP in Porto as a school where architectural education is built around collective work and a strong foundational formation. The design studio emerges as a shared framework integrating design,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Teaching, conflicts, ecology

    Maria Masi in conversation with Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel. MM: Your work moves between architectural design, academic research, and intensive teaching activity, and is marked by a consistent interest in the relationship between space, ecologies, and society. How do these experiences influence the structure of your courses, and what relationships do they weave between…

  • Notes for a systematics of the educational project

    I have always been deeply interested in discussing pedagogy; I believe it’s crucial to reflect on this topic. Not only from a theoretical standpoint but especially starting from how I personally have addressed practical problems that have arisen in this field across the various universities where I have taught and in relation to the role…