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First Aired - 11/17/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis hosts a number of friends of the show, with architect Jacob Alspector, Katy Purviance (founder of the VERB design/build school), architect Matt Arnold, and "vox populi" Caroline Bailey. This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since 1919.
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Introduction (3:49)
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BDH is big in Scandinavia, Caroline Bailey, Jacob Alspector, Cabot Cheese, Matthew Arnold, Katy Purviance, Accredation, Degrees, the license system overseas, we have issues from state to state, never being satisfied,Licenture and Accreditation (15:15)
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why bother getting a degree?, why bother getting a license, where the densest population of architects are in the US, states vary on what they require of architects, half the architects in the US live in states that DON'T require a professional degree, NCARB, a clearinghouse for credentials across states, NAAB, architecture school is often not taught by architects, imagine a medical school where the professors are not physicians, the relevance of an accredited degree is called into question, how much of your architecture education is going toward qualification, the time between leaving school and getting a license, 25 years to get your own firm, apprenticeship, the whole notion that you SHOULD have a degree can fade, City College tuition, people can be very qualified and not licensed, unlicensed architect, Ray Eames, a guest versus a guest interlocutor, William Wesley Peters, Curtis thinks you can't be an unlicensed architect, getting a license for ONE project, Robert Moses interceded on Frank Gehry's Guggenheim built, the builders of the Guggenheim suggested a lot of 'value engineering' items, Caroline worked at the Guggenheim, the Guggenheim restoration, feeling safe going up the spiral, grandfathered in, falling or jumping off a parapet, .,Architecture as Science or Art (15:11)
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Bruce Springsteen's act has not changed in 35 years, the VERB school, learning how to start a school, Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design, Regulatory boards, states where apprenticeship is statisfactory, the extreme cost of a professional degree program, The Map, architectureaddiction.com, you CAN become and architect without graduating, NCARB intern development rules, NCARB hates the idea of learning through apprenticeship, disappointment with architecture school, the logic of teaching people to build things that wil never be built, having a degree and never having built anything, Canterbury, the architect is the master builder and traditionally came up through the building ranks, what do contractors think of the architect who comes in thinking he knows something about building?, a middle-of-the-road approach between school and doing, how many professors are REALLY licensed?, Deans without licenses, NAAB does not talk about aesthetics or beauty, students are certainly not discouraged from assimilating the design peculiarities of other buildings, Matt resents the implication that someone who argues for construction knowledge is against beauty, construction knowledge is what makes beauty possible, architecture as science or art?, smart means beautiful, necessary but not sufficient, specialists, Aesthetics, a hunger for integration, Louis Kahn,Everything Counts (17:27)
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guitar in architecture school, will there be music in the curriculum at VERB?, new wave, the complexity of actually DOING architecture, the reason to be an architect is because everything counts, architecture as music, Vitruvius, Harvard Design School, AKC Papers, getting a masters at Cooper Union was expected, Construction Management, Acoustics, mathematically rigorous acoustics, the frets on a guitar are arranged logarithmically, Doing It For Love, Katie started as a microbiologist, using both the science and art parts of your brain, an apprenticeship is no guarantee you will be exposed to everything you need to learn, passing exams, the social contract, the change in how the drawings are produced, paper versus digital, education is more bureaucratic, the VERB school is going to be everywhere,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
