La educación de un arquitecto en primer año: La malla de los nueve cuadrados y Architectonics de la Cooper Union

The nine-square grid, John Hejduk's famous exercise, has been the most replicated project of the Cooper Union Architectonics course. This pedagogical resource has been reproduced in various universities in the world. This can be for the ease of its material reproduction; however, the exercise contains a precise conceptual context that accompanies its elements; Colin Rowe and Robert Slutsky's studies about the relationships between the history of architecture and the formulation of visual language developed as early as the avant-garde art and design of the twentieth century. This exercise is presented in an abstract space, devoid of scale and function, which allows analysis and spatial speculation. The objective of his study is based on the recognition and comparison of other visions of the Architecture class after the nine square problem, reviewing exercises of architects such as Raimund Abraham, Elizabeth Diller Anthony Candido and Chester Wisniewski and discovering the persistence and variations in each case. This begins with two main publications of students work from the Cooper: An Architect Education 1964-1971 and Architect Training 1972-1985.