Teaching industry

Abstract

The University has been concerned from its origins for its approach to the social and productive reality of its environment. The debate between intellectual autonomy versus dependence on the vicissitudes of reality, can not blur the necessary connection of architecture studies with constructive reality. It is not a matter of loosing the essence of the discipline but of understanding that its foundations require an instrumental basis that have its roots in a technical reality in slow but constant evolution. The industry, the near one and at disposal, allows the materialization of architecture not as mere feasibility but as an active agent in its development. The text will explore academic experiences that will work in this gap between the fiction of the academy and the constructive reality.