Tag: tempi

  • ἐνιαυτόσ or the long time required to train an architect

    “The essence of the architectural problem today is not the search for impossible connections with the past, but the full exploitation, with a free spirit, of the construction possibilities that technical progress has given us. Above all, it is necessary to give soul and aesthetic expressiveness to new building techniques, fully developing their unlimited richness.…

  • Andante veloce. Regarding two variations in intensity

    For better or worse, in the field of architectural education, there is no parameter by which to measure the greater distance between training and profession than that which concerns project timescales. For better, because it must always be remembered that the educational objectives of an architecture degree do not coincide, nor should they coincide, with…

  • 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…