ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT IS ALWAYS A RESEARCH OR HOW TO UP BRING STUDENTS CURIOSITY? Cover Image

ARHITEKTURNI PROJEKT JE VEDNO TUDI RAZISKAVA ALI KAKO VZGOJITI RADOVEDNOST?
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT IS ALWAYS A RESEARCH OR HOW TO UP BRING STUDENTS CURIOSITY?

Author(s): Jurij Kobe
Subject(s): Education, Architecture
Published by: Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Univerza v Ljubljani
Keywords: architecture; study; research; unknown; risk; curiosity;

Summary/Abstract: Architecture is a distinctly research activity. Because of the nature of the architect's work, every task calls for a solution, a new discovery. Even when we are working with a known programme and with known materials, or replicating a building, it still needs to be placed in a new, different environment. Therefore, the study of architecture should definitely include elements of education in facing the unpredictable. But nowadays, the study of architecture has increasingly strayed away from the practice of independent thinking and into the learning of predetermined forms. To support my view of the importance of the research element in the study process, I quote three architects. They belong to different periods in time and differ greatly in the nature of their work, but they express similar ideas in their writings and in their works. They all emphasize the importance of the architect's own reflection, which always involves facing risks whenever we approach an architectural task.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 42-47
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Slovenian