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by
Staff
Rafael
Vinoly architect and principal of RVA, talking about specialization,
the present and future of the profession
"
... Architecture IS a craft. If you were a pianist and you
had to go through six years of conservatory they would not
have you talk about the piano. Either you can move your
fingers or you are out! And if you are composing or are
in any of the other disciplines in which you must have accreditation
or knowledge, if you do not know the basics you are out
as well. And the basics ARE basic. It is almost in the way
which a brain actually constitutes itself. And then you
must build on them. Even if you are in the fashion industry,
you need to know how to sew, how to manipulate the fabric,
how to draw … there are some basic things that you
must learn that are in my view NOT elementary. That is all!
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by
Staff
Adele
Santos architect and Dean of MIT's School of Architecture,
discussing MIT's school of architecture and the importance
of a generalist academia
"
... If you go to any office, you sort out the skill set
and there are people that just inherently are talented in
design sets, other people are naturally talented technologically.
Unfortunately, there are not so many of those. Some people
have management skills. I think for us to be training managers
in architecture schools is just a waste of time because
we have got so much to teach. And, indeed, there are more
things to learn now and we have less time to teach them.
Instead of six years we have three and a half. So, we keep
leaving things out of the curriculum, which is scary. For
example, students graduate these days with very little knowledge
of the history of architecture. All that stuff just kind
of gets dropped out. It seems like a luxury to put the time
into that, but that's ridiculous ... "
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by
Staff
R.A.M.
Stern architect and Dean of Yale's school of architecture,
is discussing the importance of a balance between a generalist
academia and a an architectural practice based on specialized
disciplines
"
... A generalist is someone who can through the processes
of his thought, through the collection of his knowledge
easily make connections between seemingly diverse things
and bring people together and ideas together, to create
a synthesis. A building really needs to be synthesis. A
building needs to represent many diverse strands of attentions
from the technical ones that are built in it, to the technical
ones that are run in it, and the programs that are performed
in it, and the different problems of paying for it, financing
it, etc. That's what it's all about ... "
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by
Staff
Fernando
Domeyko architect and former professor at MIT, discussing
the necessity of raising questions in architecture, which
is only possible through a generalist approach
"
... My advice to students would be to have more faith. Believe
me, this is a beautiful profession and it's always possible
to do something successful. You are always in confrontation
of problems and must have the desire to discover, think, and
challenge new things. There are people who believe that machines
will resolve everything, even make the human brain survive.
For thirty years, I have been hearing the same discourse:
In the future this and that will happen…I don't believe
in looking at the future because it is definitely going to
be different that what we predict. So I would put everything
in the present. I don't care if in the future some software
will be able to produce my project instead of me. I think
what matters will always be humans, ourselves, not the machines,
not the techniques!... "
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