ABSTRACT
Five Fronts for One Single Position outlines a pedagogy for architectural design that is historically determined and provided with a practical finality based, on the one hand, on theoretical research with positive knowledge and, on the other, on the capacity to analyze, think, and produce an operative critique in relationship with instrumental dexterities. The chapter is structured in five critical themes that constitute the warp that weaves together the needs and possibilities of the teaching of architecture: the role of architects in current society; the mechanisms that have been traditionally used by women with transformative purposes; the importance of the development of students as individuals without losing sight of their social component; the scope of teaching as a horizontal collective dialogue; and the dialectic union of structured information and operative critique in architectural praxis. By reflecting on these themes, the chapter delineates a methodological and ideological framework for a propositional operative system that is open, flexible, and under permanent development.
