Viaggi. STOÀ, Strumenti per l'insegnamento della progettazione architettonica

The journey, and the consequent cognitive experience, has long been a crucial part of the education of several generations of architects. The journey constituted the culmination of the learning process: it allowed to encounter different realities, in search of specific aspects within the complexity of their contexts (geographical, anthropological, political, social and cultural. Observation is a methodological act: travelling is a tool for learning to see the world through an interpretive capacity that can be transmitted by teaching observation, by stimulating the reading and interpretation of places and spaces through various techniques or exercises, and through a subjective reading inspired by one’s own vision of the world, at a time when there is a tendency to travel without any movement or to consider travel as a mere matter of consumerism. Stoà 6 [Journeys] is a recognition of the extent to which the tool of travel is structured within the pedagogical dynamics of teaching architectural design, and how travel, understood in its broadest sense, is still an indispensable learning tool for the training of architectural students.