Tag: storie

  • Transmitting and innovating: the teaching tradition in Venice

    The word tradition derives from the Latin tradere, meaning “to hand down” or “to transmit”. Tradition is therefore a word inherent to the role of “educators”, understood in its broadest sense, especially in the teaching of architectural design. Tradition in design is the transmission of knowledge that must take place in the design workshops of…

  • 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…

  • The studio environment

    In American schools, particularly those we might define as elite, there has always been – or there was for a long time – a strong emphasis on experimentation, meaning an attempt to push boundaries in order to explore ways and approaches to thinking about architecture that presumably are not immediately applicable in the professional field…

  • The Italian difference in architectural education

    Teaching experience in other faculties, in other places, in other countries has indeed been essential for me to understand whether and what the differences are compared to our system. But before addressing this issue, I want to touch on a specifically Italian matter that worries me greatly and concerns the present; a negative difference compared…