School Textbooks between Architectural History and Heritage Pedagogy

Abstract

The article discusses the importance of school textbooks in the orientation and training of Architecture students and the strengthening of the link between different levels of education.The separation of the teaching of architectural history from art history has been debated for a long time. After 1968, a new collaborative approach between history and criticism was sought, proposing an interdisciplinary methodology, functional to prepare future designers to understand the complexity and linguistic autonomy of architectural phenomena and control it through drawing. In the first school cycle, heritage pedagogy still finds little space, while in the secondary cycle it is articulated and declined among the different addresses. In the Liceo scientifico the discipline ‘Drawing and History of Art’ requires to be set on the History of Architecture, and the textbooks must reflect this approach by facing ever new educational challenges.