2019 ACSA Teachers Conference, Practice of Teaching - Teaching of Practice: The Teacher’s Hunch
June 28-29, 2019 | Antwerp, Belgium

In the Shadow of Doubt

Teachers Proceedings

Author(s): Sebastiano D'Urso

I would like start by showing the moon half in light and half in shadow since teaching architecture is like pursuing a sphere that always has one side in the shadow of doubt. Architecture, like the moon, offers its unexplored side to the curiosity and imagination of those who feed the desire for knowledge with doubt. However, learning architecture is like pursuing the same sphere that always has a side in the light of doubt. And in point of fact, even the side in light, the side that is believed to be already known, always offers many ideas for new reflections and knowledge. Both the particular circumstances are characterized by: pursuing something very difficult to achieve fully; the value of the pursuit of an object, the sphere that here represents architecture but which, among many other things, also represents infinity; the doubt that affects teaching and also research.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2019.16

Volume Editors
Richard Blythe & Johan De Walsche

ISBN
978-1-944214-23-4