The analogy as a strategy to learn about history of architecture as a design workshop

Abstract

Delivering a subject always involves aspects of tradition, the strongest of which is methodology. There is a natural tendency to share in it the same way it was learnt. In many cases, learning in a history of architecture subject has involved the continuous exercise of memory and the mechanical repetition of thematic contents in a strictly chronological sequence, almost totally detached from the other program's subjects, particularly from the design workshop. An important change considered was the replacement of the traditional behaviorism scheme by a constructivist methodology, building upon a greater conceptual, didactic and mostly pedagogical basis. My History of Architecture class has been a setting of permanent experiences where the thematic axis have been a constant and changes, on the other hand, have been related to the implementation of concepts and ideas.