{"id":12143,"date":"2021-08-09T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/projekt\/an-architecture-world-the-tacit-in-recent-architectural-pedagogy-at-eth-zurich\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:44:51","slug":"an-architecture-world-the-tacit-in-recent-architectural-pedagogy-at-eth-zurich","status":"publish","type":"projekt","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/projekt\/an-architecture-world-the-tacit-in-recent-architectural-pedagogy-at-eth-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"An Architecture World: The Tacit in Recent Architectural Pedagogy at ETH Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tacit dimension of architectural pedagogy\u2014which students deploy when designing, but have trouble explaining\u2014remains understudied, beset by methodological difficulties. Existing accounts emphasize isolated studio exercises or cognitive processes, often neglecting cultural, historical, and disciplinary contexts. Meanwhile, the notion of tacit knowledge is not even entirely adequate for architectural education, which concerns aesthetic and ethical judgments, not just epistemological ways of knowing. This research explores an expanded understanding of the tacit in architectural education at ETH Zurich, from the late 20th century to the present. Across a series of comparative episodes, this thesis examines aspects of the tacit in design studio education at ETH against the broader horizon of European pedagogy, drawing on pedagogical manifestos\/treatises, literature reviews, archival research, re-enactment, oral histories, and studio autoethnography. In doing so, it locates the tacit\u2014and its transfer\u2014in the culture of ETH today through overlap and difference with other periods, cultures, disciplines, practices, and publics. Moving beyond this one influential architecture school, it critically considers how we teach the tacit more generally\u2014and which perspectives are privileged in the process\u2014generating insight applicable to other pedagogical contexts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17125\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17125 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Pages-from-Annual-Report_1976_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"760\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Yearbook cover. International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, 1st Residential Course, Urbino, 1976, https:\/\/www.ilaud.org\/1976-urbino\/.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17129\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17129 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Portr_11877-009-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"498\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of ETH 2nd Year course, 1969, with Prof. Bernhard Hoesli, Peter Balla, Prof. Hans Ess, Paul Nizon. \u00a9 ETH-Bibliothek Z\u00fcrich, Bildarchiv \/ Fotograf: Unbekannt \/ Portr_11877-009 \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17121\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/61ZAjzUh93L.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"760\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Book cover. Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tacit dimension of architectural pedagogy\u2014which students deploy when designing, but have trouble explaining\u2014remains understudied, beset by methodological difficulties. Existing accounts emphasize isolated studio exercises or cognitive processes, often neglecting cultural, historical, and disciplinary contexts. Meanwhile, the notion of tacit knowledge is not even entirely adequate for architectural education, which concerns aesthetic and ethical judgments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12129,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":""},"categories":[],"departemente":[155,232,88],"class_list":["post-12143","projekt","type-projekt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","departemente-department-of-architecture-d-arch","departemente-institute-for-the-history-and-theory-of-architecture-gta","departemente-prof-dr-tom-avermaete-en"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"departemente":[{"value":155,"label":"Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)"},{"value":232,"label":"Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)"},{"value":88,"label":"Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hintergrundbild-An-Architecture-World-scaled-1-1024x363.jpg",1024,363,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projekt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projekt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}