THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE THROUGH REMOTE MEANS IN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES

Abstract

The use of digital technologies has been a reality in the teaching and practice of architecture since the late 1980s. The transition from analogical means of conception, representation and construction to digital means was slow, but irreversible. The digital age in architecture blends with the contemporary production of great international works. As a result of the Coronavirus 19 pandemic, remote teaching was adopted. The objective was to compare the teaching platforms available for undergraduate and graduate students in a remote learning experience with digital architecture. Action research was used, with two disciplines with similar content at both levels simultaneously, with Digital Technologies and Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies, in the second half of 2020. The challenge was to adapt to different levels of knowledge, objectives and depths. The SIGAA was used In the post-graduate course, and the Moodle platform and the SIE WEB, in the undergraduate course. In both, the synchronous meetings took place through the Google Meet application. The use of the four available platforms leads to the urgent need to unify them. Experience points to the irreversibility of the use of TDMAs in higher education, and further deepening hybrid’s education possibilities.