Initiation to the architectural project: exercise as a device for learning

Authors

  • José Ignacio Lee C. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
  • Antonio Juárez Chicote Universidad Politécnica de Madrid image/svg+xml
  • Enrique Colomés Montañés Universidad Politécnica de Madrid image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2019123546

Keywords:

Pedagogy, Strategies, Wording, Types, Educational methodology, Introduction course

Abstract

Experimental pedagogical strategies of the Avant-garde of the 20th century, such as the Base Section of the Vkhutemas or the Preliminary Course of the Bauhaus, are teaching methodologies that provided a set of didactic tools in the decades after the Second World War, in which workshop exercises such as those of Albers, Moholy-Nagy or Itten, were adapted to new educa-tional contexts and formats. Since then, numerous researchers and authors (Shellman, McGinty, Jordan, Somol, Stanton, Love…..) have analyzed parameters, characteristics and preliminary project procedures of different schools and contexts, in which the families of exercises form types or modalities of action that use a set of elements and project mechanisms, recogniza-ble as operative schemes that admit modifications without losing essential common characteristics. Their analysis shows the evolution and variety of propaedeutic and methodological pedagogies within a permanent debate around the teaching strate-gies of initiation to the architectural project and the nature of the exercise as a device for disciplinary learning and as a subject for reflection, research and knowledge.

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Author Biographies

  • José Ignacio Lee C., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

    Jose Ignacio Lee C. PhD student at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnical University of Madrid. Master in Advanced Architectural Projects (MPAA), ETSAM. Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, ITCR (Costa Rica Institute of Technology). His master thesis (MPAA) titled: " El enunciado como dispositivo pedagógico en la introducción al proyecto arquitectónico contemporáneo" obtained an outstanding qualification. The work presented in this text is part of the research of his doctoral thesis entitled " Dispositivos pedagógicos: estrategias operativas en la introducción al proyecto arquitectónico contemporáneo". Since 2017 he has been visiting professor at the Architectural Projects Intensification Workshop of the Department of Projects of the ETSAM, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, directed by professor Antonio Juárez Chicote. jlee@itcr.ac.cr

  • Antonio Juárez Chicote, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    Antonio Juárez Chicote is an Architect (Madrid School of Architecture, Polytechnical University of Madrid) since 1992. Fulbright Scholar at Columbia and Pennsylvania taking classes at the AAD Master at Columbia University, as part of his predoctoral research. He obtained his Ph. D. in Madrid at the ETSAM in 1998, the same year when he began to teach at the Design Department of the School (DPA). Associate Professor at the ETSAM, he has been visiting professor in Columbia University, Puerto Rico, West Sydney, Oporto, BUAP (Mexico), UIC (Barcelona), and most of the universities in Spain. He has published El universo imaginario de Louis I. Kahn (2006), Exploring Matter: Degree Zero in Architectural Design (2010), and Chalk Laboratory. 'Open' Form and Experimental Pedagogy (2016). He has received the Certificate of Recognition by the American Institute of Architects. a.juarez@upm.es

  • Enrique Colomés Montañés, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    Enrique Colomés Montañés. Doctor Assistant Professor of Architectural Projects at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid and visitor at the universities of Karlsruhe, Grenoble, Navarra, Autónoma Metropolitana Mexico-DF, Camerino and Lisbon. International Doctor in `Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados´ (2014), his thesis obtained ETSAM mention of `Extraordinary Prize UPM´, being considered among the relevant Spanish research on Mies. His publications include the book `Café Terciopelo y Seda´ (`Arquitecturas Ausentes del s XX´, 2004-2010), being the author of articles on `contemporary theory-practice' and `Modernity´ and `architectural project teaching´ in research journals (Architettura Citá, Constelaciones, REIA, ZARCH) and congress publications (I CI Miguel Fisac´, `EURAU2012-Porto´, `III-V CIAB-Valencia¨, `Tesis Recientes vol. II´). Architectural work with prizes in architecture competitions, exhibitions and biennials. enrique.colomes@upm.es

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Published

2019-05-13

Issue

No. 12 (2019): The Learning of Architecture

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How to Cite

Lee C., J. I., Juárez Chicote, A., & Colomés Montañés, E. (2019). Initiation to the architectural project: exercise as a device for learning. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 12, 98-109. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2019123546

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