298 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
In fact we know that more than often the quite frightening freedom that new virtual
tools give to the users (the students mainly, but not only them), can bring to a
kind of unconscious solutions which have nothing to do with an effective creativity,
where the interest in sustainable constructive technologies is combined with a loss
of memory about what the architecture of the past already achieved through the
special quality of its formal research.
So, the deep knowledge of single technological topics as expressions of formal quali-
tative results in the different architectures can allow the students to reuse them in
their design practice as a kind of abacus whose semantic consistence can help them
in choosing appropriate architectural solutions.