Learning architecture: focusing on the importance of the relationship between the architect - theorist and the architect - creator

Abstract

The importance of the relationship between creators and theorists in the field of architecture and urbanism is highly relevant for understanding the discipline itself. In recent years, creative making in the field of architecture has gained a new dimension, facilitating architectural achievements to subsequently establish an affiliation with certain theories. That is, this retroactive theoretical premise, which allegedly has driven an architectural achievement, should establish the stronghold and approach of the architect-creator.

On the contrary, there is another approach, according to which the architect-creator and the architect-theorist work in parallel and are mutually complementing and harmonizing. In such situations, theory and architectural achievement have joined strength and a harmonious and sincere relationship.

The topic of this paper is to show the approach focused on the importance of the relationship between the architect-theorist and the architect-creator. The approach is explained by two learning processes that take place independently of each other in two different institutions, one academic and the other professional. In both cases, the focus is on establishing a link between research/theoretical and design/practical, and in the domain of perspectives and experiences within the context of new European paradigms.