Architecture as Pedagogy

This essay examines how architectural education can cultivate civic responsibility through a renewed engagement with tradition and typology. Drawing on two
pedagogical models—the AA’s “Architecture and Continuity” in London and Rome University’s “Project and Tradition”—it explores how each redefines “type” not as
replication, but as a flexible framework rooted in cultural memory. Through contrasting approaches—Rome’s typological survey and the AA’s symbolic “exemplary
situations”—both studios offer valuable strategies for educating architects attuned to historical continuity, spatial meaning, and the ethical dimensions of building
within contemporary urban contexts.

Winter 2025