In our academic context we seem to start by  having to unlearn several notions about our built environment in order to learn how to make architecture.  But when it comes to construction we move between the institutionalized tradition and the "informal" one; the latter represents the majority of what has been built in this country...We must ask then, what significant knowledge pervades the present since it precedes formal architectural education by many years " How is this knowledge transmitted " Are the instructions for these constructions drawn or narrated " Finally, how do we unlearn what we don´t understand "

© Roberto D´Ambrosio

Architects: Arkosis
Location: La Vega, Costa Rica

Author: Iván Delgado

Collaborators: Ma. Fernanda Matamoros, Cristian Alvarez, Carlos Jiménez

Area: 90.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Roberto D´Ambrosio

© Roberto D´Ambrosio

In our academic context we seem to start by  having to unlearn several notions about our built environment in order to learn how to make architecture.  But when it comes to construction we move between the institutionalized tradition and the "informal" one; the latter represents the majority of what has been built in this country...We must ask then, what significant knowledge per...