Building Aedificatores. Cross-Analyzing some Teaching Approaches in Architecture and Civil Engineering

Abstract

Education may be a tool in mastering the changes that permanently occur. Therefore, re-evaluating and updating teaching approaches plays an important role and in view of the solid bond between architecture and civil engineering, a cross-analysis seems useful. The paper cross-examines some established, instituted teaching approaches rendered through the filter of personal experience: analysis through synthesis, background reference, critique, brainstorming, jigsaw and R.A.I. In terms of comparison, this dynamic examination improves the professional relation between the two domains and their relative understanding. In terms of particular observation, each field may gain from transposing and experiencing suitable approaches from the other one.