Does one need culture to design?
Rafael Francesconi Latorre y Luz Stella Peña Escobar
This paper gives an answer from assessments of cultural competences in architectural design learning. Learning based on competences raises fears about a displacement of a humanistic education by job training. Even before the competences approach was adopted in the field of architectural design learning, from some points of view, neither architectonic culture nor formation in the humanities was considered necessary to design. Its introduction increases the awareness on the possibility to lose the humanistic content in the architectural training.
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