Quality indications of an emergent school: from the leaves to the root

Abstract

This year is taking place the celebration of the VI Conference of Teaching Innovation in Architecture in the framework of the tenth anniversary of the degree in Architecture at the University of Zaragoza. In this context, this communication presents a reflection on the quality indications of this emerging School. Knowing about the diversity and complexity of the approaches to quality evaluation, this proposal consists of a retrospective study that fundamentally focusses on the experience of this School’s graduates. We understand the particularity as a distinguishing feature of the quality of a school. This approach is possible through a careful collection and processing of data, which have made it possible to obtain a thematic cartography that also helps to draw the School tree, from its roots –teachers– to its leaves –graduates–. Its development makes it possible to look back, serving as a starting point for future reflections that favor the long-term consolidation of this emerging School.