In the new educational offer by the Italian school of architecture we notice the necessity of a contemporary new version of the theoretical consideration within the courses of architectural design. We are not referring to the re- proposition of a self-referential approach disconnected from the project, but teaching students the necessity to motivate one’s choices, without deferring them to a supposed illusory invention. We have to explain still decisive questions, such as the relationship with the context, the correct passages among the various steps of in-depth analysis of the project, the awareness not subjected to fashion or to the sample-taking of the endless examples immediately available on the internet. The question of typology has to be re-considered: it reached its peak in Pescara during the years of the so called “Tendenza” and after was completely removed. C. M. Arìs’ studies propose to identify the fil rouge with history upon which many contemporary projects are based, altough declaring against it. In the passage from studies on the compact city to those on the sprawling city, it appeared impossible to analyze it by means of a typo-morphological approach, requiring a lengthening to other disciplines such as photography, topography, literary description and the destabilizing suggestion of land art, towards the planning identification of new centralities in the large magma of wide spread settlements.
Looking Ahead. A Theoretical Glance of the Teaching Activities in Architecture
POZZI, Carlo
2016-01-01
Abstract
In the new educational offer by the Italian school of architecture we notice the necessity of a contemporary new version of the theoretical consideration within the courses of architectural design. We are not referring to the re- proposition of a self-referential approach disconnected from the project, but teaching students the necessity to motivate one’s choices, without deferring them to a supposed illusory invention. We have to explain still decisive questions, such as the relationship with the context, the correct passages among the various steps of in-depth analysis of the project, the awareness not subjected to fashion or to the sample-taking of the endless examples immediately available on the internet. The question of typology has to be re-considered: it reached its peak in Pescara during the years of the so called “Tendenza” and after was completely removed. C. M. Arìs’ studies propose to identify the fil rouge with history upon which many contemporary projects are based, altough declaring against it. In the passage from studies on the compact city to those on the sprawling city, it appeared impossible to analyze it by means of a typo-morphological approach, requiring a lengthening to other disciplines such as photography, topography, literary description and the destabilizing suggestion of land art, towards the planning identification of new centralities in the large magma of wide spread settlements.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
