Challenges and Opportunities for Innovative Curriculum: Strategies for Implementation of Curricular Modernization in the Teaching of Architecture

Abstract

The following article is the result of a research that reflects on the process of curricular innovation of the undergraduate career of architecture at the University of Chile. The article discusses the need to build strategies for proper implementation of the new curriculum in accordance to the orientation and emphasis of innovation, taking on the challenge of training professionals who can interact with the complexities of contemporary society. Specifically it suggests the need to link curriculum management, formative vision and disciplinary field, allowing adequate coordination between the different disciplinary lines of the career, namely, between theory and practice. A transformation that occurs because of the incorporation of the teaching model based on competency. Thus, it is expected that the future professional can solve problems and interact critically within his field of action.