Architectural Notes in Review is an editorial project which aims to curate a collection of conversations about teaching Architectural Design. Multidimensional thoughts which, however fleeting, seek to engender a learning process; the true nature of a discipline that here affirms its resistance to formalisation. Using the interview as an expositional tool brings together an ensemble of communicative modes that become particularly effective when addressing this vision: experience, relation, theory, memory and, what one might call mastery.
Structurally, we have isolated three key moments from Álvaro Siza Vieira’s expositions on the subject of Architectural Design: we begin with an exercise in sharing thoughts about his memories as a student, recalling some of his teachers from his early days; we remember some of the lessons he taught as a professor and reflect on the teaching of a Portuguese Architecture so vividly marked by the Revolution of April 1974; and finally, we look at the possibility of coming up with new thematic pathways and pedagogical interpretations for the teaching, practice and validation of Architecture.