Active Teaching Methods in Teaching-Learning Architecture

Abstract

This paper delves into a pedagogical reflection on the ways of teaching and learning architecture, from the perspective of active pedagogy or new education, as it was called by some of its main ideologues. Architecture, by its disciplinary nature, related to science and art in unquantifiable proportions, escapes learning systems where it can be easier to identify knowledge appropriation methods, as with exact sciences, for instance. The design and construction processes to perform the materialization of architectural elements are a mixture of theoretical knowledge reflected in design practice, that is, a balanced mix between thinking and doing; that is why it is important to reflect on what is being done in architecture schools, and leave, as is reasonable and prudent, more questions than answers.