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Record 1 1985-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
OBS

charrette: the intense final effort made by architectural students to complete a given architectural problem is an allotted time or the period in which such an effort is made.

OBS

Charrette: an intensive, concentrated and deadline oriented group confrontation and discussion technique applied to identify, analyze, evaluate and solve educational, organizational and community problems and needs.

OBS

From French, cart (in the phrase "en charrette" in a cart), perhaps originally so called in allusion to the practice of French architecture students of working hastily on their design drawings in carts which took them to their school.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
OBS

charrette : Dans les métiers graphiques, période de travail intensif permettant de mener à bien un projet particulièrement urgent par allusion aux élèves architectes qui le jour de l'exposition, transportaient leurs travaux dans une charrette.

Spanish

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