Deux ex Machina. Architectural Education for a (still) unexisting world
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2017.5193Abstract
With the Latin expression Deus ex Machina, a figure in the old theater was recognized as causing some kind of dissatisfaction. In the present day, Schools of Architecture maintain an immobility in their role of formators. Exploring the limits of architecture implies not only the ability to generate metaphors from other fields of knowledge, but also to articulate the dissolution of knowledge in order to reinsert a cultural and differentiated demand for architectural action that is not clearly shown in the teaching plans. Under academic agreements between the ETSA-US (Spain) and the IAU-USP (Brazil), we report some undergraduate and postgraduate experiences, actions of a transdisciplinary nature that have produced a formative strategy whose results we are beginning to evaluate. The experiences with codes of mutability in architectural processes based on evolutionary techniques in aeronautics, the use of multiscalar mappings, openings to understand the city from the fascination with the unconscious and the dream, would be some of the examples we have put on going.