Architecture beyond measure

The ever whelming evolution humanity and its consequent metamorphosing aesthetics translates into a landscape of fragments which, at times, lack articulating resorts meant to ease their intervention in the existent context and even meant to contribute to the sense of cultural convergence through time. The apparent fractures of our environment constitute a direct reflection of the scarcity of introspection and profound understanding of the context. Early years of education in architecture are crucial to students’ in their endeavor of assembling a geometrical, experiential and semantic repertoire of architecture. This paper presents a method of mending the fractures of the built landscape through education, implemented in the 2^nd year students’ summer practice, which has, as a study object, Romanian architecture, tradition and culture. The method, entitled architecture beyond measure, has, as main objective, the exercise of a measuring survey of an architecture object, representative to traditional and cultural values. Until 2019, the practice had been traditionally carried out in the Village Museums of the country. In recent years, the practice encompassed the experience of surveying places which bear less of a museum character and bring their user into the equation of study and survey. Results have thus been reaching new forms of understanding, expressing and engaging tradition into the contemporary discourse.