Teaching Quality Spatial Design in the Studio (Part 2) - What Works!

Send us Fan Mail The educator’s answer to Part 1, and it comes from Porto. At FAUP — the school shaped by Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura — spatial intuition isn’t treated as a mystical gift but as a systematically trained muscle. Three anchors hold it: (1) freehand drawing as an analytical instrument rather than a presentation tool, forcing the slow cognitive digestion of scale and shadow that software bypasses; (2) buildings understood as extensions of landscape, whe...