Open AccessBoth of Stuff and Not
Author(s) -
Giovanni Corbellini
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eaae annual conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2736-6200
pISSN - 2736-6197
DOI - 10.51588/eaaeacp.8
Subject(s) - architecture , task (project management) , syllabus , interrogative , history of architecture , sociology , computer science , architectural engineering , aesthetics , engineering , visual arts , art , philosophy , pedagogy , linguistics , systems engineering
Architecture is a quite elusive discipline, both unleashed and restrained by a perennial calling into question of its own fundamentals. Being and becoming an architect means to cast a doubtful, unsatisfied, interrogative gaze on the world and especially on the world of architecture. Teaching such a (self-) critical discipline is, therefore, an intrinsically impossible task. Of course, syllabuses include specific competencies such as drawing, history, structures, law, economics... but when it comes to integrating them into the architectural project, any fixed framework becomes questionable, and it is precisely this questioning that makes design architectural, offering that necessary potential which can turn mere building into architecture.