Bread, Love and Dreams. Some ideas to ‘update’ Architectural Composition’s Teaching

Abstract

What should the courses in Architectural Composition offer today? How should we ‘persuade’ students―seduced by high-end technology and committed to new challenges of society, sustainability, ecology…―of the ‘usefulness’ of history? How should we present the lessons from the architecture of Ancient Greece, the Baroque, the Enlightenment, the avant-gardes…as valuable material to understand reality and even as tools to face their own designs? A deliberate discourse―open and flexible, missing in the vast quantity of materials on the Internet―and an approach connecting history, reality and the problems of the modern-day world are two of the greatest challenges that the teaching of history or architecture must face.