化圆为方:宾夕法尼亚大学的建筑学教育

Squaring the Circle:Architectural Education at Penn

阐明对我们这个时代的建筑而言,什么才是有意义的探询,并解释什么样的思考和研究,才可以帮助年轻学子去应对自己终将面对的任务——在他对世界本来面目的个人化认识以及这些事物的应然面目之间建立联系。这种探询,更准确地说是教学,正是过去几十年来宾夕法尼亚大学设计学院建筑学系所努力施行的。文章认为,教师和学生需要做出两种类型的贡献:一是对于广义上的社会和生活的理解与参与,二是在新的可能、新的手段、新的思考下,重构和改变它们。

This paper aims to describe the kind of inquiry that makes sense for architecture in our time, explaining the kind of thought and study that prepares young architects for the challenging task of establishing connections between an individual＇s sense of how things actually are and how they ought to be. This is the kind of inquiry, and indeed of teaching, that has been attempted for the past couple of decades in the Department of Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. The article proposes that two forms of contribution are required of teachers and students： participation in the existing horizon of expectations and the reformulation of those expectations in the light of new possibilities, new kinds of drawing or documentation, and new kinds of thinking.