Penndesign ARCHITECTURE CHAIR, WINKA DUBBELDAM, and Professor, Marion Weiss, JOIN LINEAGES AND TRAJECTORIES: THE CASE OF ARCHITECTURE PEDAGOGY. THIS SYMPOSIUM TAKES PLACE ON FRIDAY MARCH 27TH AND SATURDAY MARCH 28TH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.
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Symposium
Lineages and Trajectories: the case of Architecture Pedagogy
Pre-Symposium
Friday, March 27th 2015
Hard Hat Tour of the Rotunda under construction – 4:00 PM
Graduate Open House Lecture delivered by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi – 6:00 PM
Dinner – 8:00 PM hosted by Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover
Garden Room, Hotel E, Academical Village
March 28th 2015
9:30 AM-5:30 PM
Inundated by the ever-expanding charge and challenge of responding to the plethora of environmental and socio-economic forces that shape our contemporary reality, Architecture finds itself at once equipped to respond to these challenges, and simultaneously sidestepped by procedures and mechanisms that for long have limited its capacity to operate as a major player in reshaping the built environment. New tools and technologies provide schools and practice alike with a continuous stream of challenges and possibilities. Overwhelmed by the mandates of an ever complex context, the discipline seems to be stalled in a temporary, yet extended moment of amnesia, forgetful of much that has happened in its recent past, leaving considerable gaps in its pedagogy. Thirty years after Jaque Robertson invited “a bunch of white guys (and three Japanese)” (Sorkin, 86) to the Rotunda to make the Charlottesville Tapes, the vanguard of the discipline is as diverse, as its scope is wide, and its methodologies are varied, rendering the role of architecture schools as the grounds for inspiring and training the next generation of visionaries more complicated than ever.
This symposium will consider the complex conditions of a pedagogy arising from the confluence of a Modernist lineage with contemporary methods and processes, and charged with responding to the mandates of an ever complex context. We hope to recognize gaps in architecture pedagogy – to reveal what has sustained during this period, what has been lost, and how it can be brought back.
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