Week 11 Films

“Guest Speakers at IE: Thom Mayne, Architecture and Education”

Theme was innovation in architecture education in Madrid.

Current challenged in architectural education.

What are the most significant changes? The position of the architect is diminished the power of the client has increased. The potential of design activities have radically increased due to digital practice. What is the next big challenge facing education? Diminishing role of architects as designers is problematic. Fewer and fewer architects are asked to answer ecological problems and complex problems and that has to change. The students are now transferable into many different fields. Rethink the political. Strength of students is now broad. Students are inquisitive, optimistic, sense of contemporary. Changes taking place in our society today is problem formation, we need to become much more active.

“Architecture Deans talk about the future of Education”

Resolve the gap between education and professional world. Make architecture location a bigger identity. We need to reach a bigger audience, all disciplines. The video talked about a meeting at a university with the theme being Globalization has effected architectural education as a discipline and relation on the profession. The 2011 summit the theme was architecture education and network community of the deans. Different circumstances have different educational methods. Change the matter of the way societies look at each other. The three-day summit had different opinions on innovation. There are new platforms of education and the architecture field is ever changing, with new themes.

“Education in Architecture: Global Difference.”

This video is a set of issues and ideas and observations he has made through out the world. Architecture and design suffers from extreme upper class individualism, and there is too much information and too little knowledge. It creates an inverse relationship.  Design studio has become a competition and we subject them to the worst kind of reviews and they are worked so hard often to tears and that is considered education. We need to rethink the process of building and ethical modes of practice. Students need to work as cooperative working. He thinks studio is done so wrong and needs to change. He discusses his study in Africa. He thinks that the preconditions should be created with the school. He pictured South African architecture education and described it as all over the place. In South African there could be potential in the next 15-20 years

“Preston Scott Cohen: Challenges of Architectural Education”

Architecture is a field of expertise, while leaving opens the field for experimentation. The schools have motivated the field and experiments would never be done in the professional world. The school needs to be in a reality and spring forward for future development. There is open tension between providing access deep knowledge of techniques of specificity and precision of architecture for ongoing advancement of the field and leaving open realms of aimless architecture education. Design should not be goal orientated. Doing work and studying things, and stuff that is useless will eventually become a tremendous effect as an official architect.