Teaching

According to the 2017 Architecture Degree Program, the teaching carried out in the Laboratory of Editions in Architecture corresponds to the Professional Interest Line (LIP) of “Criticism and Reflection,” as well as the Professional Action Area of ​​“Teaching, Research, and Dissemination.”(2) Furthermore, the teaching at the Laboratory is part of the Area: Theory, History, and Research of ​​our faculty's administrative structure. The required courses consistently taught by the Laboratory's faculty are History of Architecture I, II, and III, which, due to their content, correspond to their lines of research. In addition, the elective courses Media Discourses in Architecture and Architecture and Print Media in the twentieth century are offered every semester. These latter courses have recently been updated at the request of the Academic Council of the Architecture Laboratory (CALA) of our faculty.

Evaluations

According to our program,

“[…] assessment will be oriented as a formative process to plan and foster learning situations in which students discover, construct, and experience the theoretical and practical knowledge they require to achieve the learning objectives. In accordance with the approaches of this curriculum, we assume students who pose and solve problems, contribute solutions they generate themselves, and construct and reconstruct knowledge according to their cultural environment.”

Also, according to our plan, the research chosen by Lea students “represents a dynamic process that moves from the sensory to the rational, from the concrete to the abstract, from the systematic to the playful, from the simple to the complex and vice versa. It posits that the teaching and learning process of architecture can be grounded, explained, systematized, and evaluated with the participation of all those involved in the process.” [1]

Upon entering Lea, students take a diagnostic assessment with their instructors, which serves to identify the interests, skill levels, and knowledge of the young researchers. Based on this initial assessment, and throughout the semester, formative assessments are conducted so that all those involved in the learning process can recognize the emergence and development of skills, the construction of useful knowledge, and the application of that knowledge to new and more complex tasks. Finally, at the end of each of the two semesters at Ael, a summative assessment is carried out, which integrates the preceding formative assessments with a final evaluation. These three forms of assessment are those indicated in our curriculum.[2]

[1] Faculty of Architecture, UNAM. Degree program 2017. Volume I (Mexico City: UNAM, 2017) 77 y 78. 

[2] Ibid. 79.