Abstract:

The design process in any domain challenges us to innovate and express ourselves. During spring 2020 and present days the academic environment provoked us to be more and more creative. The first year Architecture Design Studio at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning in Cluj-Napoca was an experience that has transformed the way we see and understand the teaching of Architecture to 1st year students. How to explain specific concepts such as space configurations or experimentation? How to teach creativity? How to explain visual and technical representations? How to teach the first design gestures and architecture experiences to different students, with different educational backgrounds that meet Architecture for the first time? In this paper the evolution of the first project themes are analyzed, from the perspective of an atypical – online environment. We discuss specific goals and teaching strategies, specific steps and transformations, we look back at the entire educational process and the outcomes of what we learned on the way.

Keywords:

Teaching experience, online, architecture, creativity.