Radical Pedagogies: Re-imagining Architecture’s Disciplinary Protocols
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Radical Pedagogies explores a series of pedagogical experiments that played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th Century. As a challenge to normative thinking, they questioned, redefined, and reshaped the post-war field of architecture. They are radical in the literal meaning stemming from the Latin radix (root), as they question the basis of architecture. These new modes of teaching shook foundations and disturbed assumptions, rather than reinforcing and disseminating them. They operated as small endeavours, sometimes on the fringes of institutions, but had long-lasting impact. Much of architectural teaching today still rests on the paradigms they introduced.
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Colomina, B., Galán, I. G., Kotsioris, E., & Meister, A.-M. (2017). Radical Pedagogies: Re-imagining Architecture’s Disciplinary Protocols. Materia Arquitectura, (14), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i14.24
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OCKMAN, J. (1988). Resurrecting the Avant-Garde: The History and Program of Oppositions. In B. Colomina (Ed.), Architectureproduction (pp. 180–199). New York, NY, USA: Princeton Architectural Press.
PRICE, C. (1966, October). Potteries Thinkbelt. Architectural Digest, 484–497.
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SUNWOO, I. (2012). From the ‘Well-Laid Table’ to the ‘Marketplace’: The Architectural Association Unit System. Journal of Architectural Education, 65(2), 24–41.
VIOLEAU, J.-L. (2005). Les Architectes et Mai 68. Paris, France: Recherches.
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