Una reflexión histórica sobre las materias científicas, tecnológicas y técnicas en la carrera de Arquitectura

Abstract

This article corresponds to fragments of a chapter of the Doctoral Thesis developed at the FADU-UBA and defended in 2015, dedicated to studying the disciplinary transformations within the study plans of the architecture degree at the University of Buenos Aires from its beginnings until 1956. The work presented here exposes, from a historical perspective, the evolution of the subjects of the area currently known as "Basic Sciences, Technology, Production and Management". Our initial purpose was to reflect on why it was taught in this or that way, what alternatives were discarded, what were the contents, procedures and values that were considered preferential and, mainly, what conception of teaching was tacitly defended. For this purpose, we analyze, without forgetting the teachers, the syllabi of the subjects, the exercises that the students had to carry out, the themes developed -and the excluded ones-, the theoretical frameworks, the bibliography used, the correspondence or confrontation with the legitimized models, the endurance of certain practices, traditions and ruptures, all to understand how much of the aforementioned still persists.