The thing about teaching architecture is that there is not a teacher of architecture. I'm not saying that they aren't good profesional in their areas, but that doesn't mean that they know how to teach.
The workshop's hour of class are not even classes, i can count every hour that i have recived as an "architecture class" with one hand and for sure i'll not need all my finger.
All we do in workshop class is take an assignment, make a list of what they want and use all of our time out of college to kill our brains, reading, thinking drawing, modeling. Whatever it could be what they said even if you didn't understand, to be punctual the very next sesion, hopping that everything you did it wasn't a waste of time. Using all the time of the class to do a close-door correction of our work while we are waiting to have the results. And that's it, over and over. Is a very toxic relationship.
Said that, if i ever consider the posibility to be a workshop teacher, this will be the first thing that i would change. I would make my students to work on the class assigned, looking what are they doing, answering their questions, developing the projects as much as they can in class so when they have to work in their houses it'll be much less stressful.
If the faculty of architecture and urbanism wants to improve the way of how architects are looking to the world they need to change how they are teacging it first.
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