Conversation between architects and engineers in architectural design teaching

Abstract

The structural education in architecture schools emphasize that the dialogue between professionals should be the connecting point between the conception of the structural morphology, to be carried out by the architect, and its validation and construction by the structural engineer. However, is this dialogue actually happening? The aim of this work is to study the conversational model proposed by Paul Pangaro (2009), based on Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory (1976a), and investigate if a dialogic process between architectural design and structural education in architectural schools in fact occurs, or if it is possible to propose a new conversational model, promoting transdisciplinary participation and collaboration practices.