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stoà 11 SCUOLE, EDIFICI

 

Anno IV, 3/3, Autunno 2024

 

The buildings in which architectural design is taught and learned – the school of architecture – bear specific meanings linked to particular aims, contingencies, educational programs, and learning objectives. As cultural institutions, these buildings inform our understanding of education. They are physical devices that make the relationship between ideas and values, pedagogical theories, and spatial configurations explicit. As tangible structures, schools of architecture establish unique relationships with urban environments and landscape. As educational institutions for architectural design, they demonstrate a vast array of potential outcomes for design projects. From simulations of professional practice to more experimental explorations, from digital research to hands-on engagement, schools of architecture as physical spaces exert significant pedagogical influence, asserting themselves as non-neutral sites that exemplify diverse perspectives on the teaching and practice of architectural design.

 

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STOÀ is an Italian magazine, undergoing a process of double-blind peer-review, which questions the methods and processes that determine the educational project for architecture. Journal of the area of architectural design (SC 08/DI) STOÀ tends to combine academic research and teaching practices in order to generate und critical reflection on schools, its protagonists and their methods favoring an intersection between knowledge and other disciplines in order to understand the structures and tools essential to the construction of the educational project. A four-monthly magazine that with its making will build an international network of themes and positions, trying to force the limits to understand contemporary issues on a case-by-case basis, grounding them in issues of discipline.