With the growing reliance on technology and other visual media to explore architectural ideas, has architectural pedagogy realigned itself with the evolving possibilities of the new technological age?
With the above in mind, we designed a program to explore and test this question. The program encouraged experimentation and speculation and technology was seen to be central within the experimentation and creation of required outcomes. The starting point was the selection of an activity. Each stage of the process required the student to firstly, carefully observe, then to create an image utilizing different ‘medium’ to realize their observations. The chosen mediums were cubism, movie making and digital imaging. Conventional plans and sections were required to be made from each final outcome, and at each stage. As part of and in response to each progressive stage, a space to house an element of the activity was designed. The concluding part required the design of a small urban building to accommodate the activity selected.
Keywords. Pedagogy; Architecture; Technology; Spatialization; Exploration.