E-learning for architecture

This volume’s contributors, even despite its apparent fragmentary appearance, firmly believe in the idea that modern tools of information science and on-line systems should be utilized in innumerable ways in the various independent stages of an architect’s learning, but that they can never totally replace the maieutic aspect of master-pupil relations, even if the masters, due to the extraordinary capacities of computer science, can be themselves multiplied, since, even though distant in space, they can be visibly and audibly next to us in a shared environment, even interacting with our own designs.\n\nWe are spectators with other students gathered from all over the world to share together the most precious moments in our and their educational growth. Research into the most effective way of realizing this ‘Augmented Reality’ as the Americans call it, is our most ambitious objective, along with a parallel investigation into all the other possible stages of teaching in which information science technologies can be used as a normal and potent tool for the training of an architect.