Poetic Critique as an Operator of Didactic-Project Renovation: The Case of the ARKRIT Group

Abstract

This article explores the poetic critique –the core of the method developed by the ARKRIT Group– focusing on its efforts to suggest “quality” criteria in architectural projects, and not leading to any type of outcome as it adequately eludes both the process’s methodological strictness of the project as well the establishment of deterministic morphological guidelines in the object. Subsequently, its stages, strategies and operating systems are examined, understanding critique as a substance of the generation (or poetics) of an architectural object that ‘is to be’. From this perspective, the possibility of acting in the teaching of projects is delved in deeper, as a renewing source of its didactic, establishing a non-hierarchical and dialectic interplay among the stakeholders, where the project in formation itself becomes ‘denied’, questioned and (re)configured in a critical trend that may help improve the development and the self-understanding of learning based on the architectural case.