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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis and guest host Roderick L. Knox sit down with Katy PurvÃance BasiÄ, founder of The Verb School, and architect Matt Arnold. This week's subject was the quality of high education being dished out in architecture schools across the nation. Katy started her own architecture school after her frustratingly hands-off experiences at Harvard; Matt Arnold describes similarly disheartening incidents during his time at Cooper-Union. Are students spending too much time in front of computer screens and not enough time learning with their hands, engaged in debate, and getting down and dirty? Tune in to hear these experts and educators weigh in on the places where our future architects sharpen their minds. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: grass-fed beef from the California coast.
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Burning Down The House Intro - The Diploma Mill (21:52)
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Burning Down The House, heritage radio network, Curtis B. Wayne, the culture of architecture, Hearst Ranch, Roberta's, Roderick L. Knox, Cooper Union, Matt Arnold, Katy PurvÃance BasiÄ, Harvard Design School, founding an independent architecture school, inspired by disappointment, culture shock, University of Idaho, why does being an architect mean staring at computers all day, sleeping through lectures, Piper Auditorium, K. Michael Hays, Building Text in Context, The French Revolution, The French Revolution reconfigured the calendar, collateral of reading, acculturation of an architect, Sanctuaries: The Last Works of John Hejduk gives Dr. Knox a headache, Boule custom houses, Yestermorrow Design Build School, learning architecture through building, construction administration, scripting, coding, Preston Scott Cohen, projective geometry, The Preston & Cameron Hour, orthographic projection, autoCAD, constructing 3D images, the basics of mechanical drawing, high school stuff, talking about drawing instead of teaching construction, axonometric projection, diploma mill, you pays and you stays, all sorts of gizmos, spoonfeeding students, no philosophy behind the teaching, The Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, energy and technology, Mies van der Rohe,Gimme Some Truth (20:56)
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Hearst Ranch, 156 Thousand Acres of Pacific Grasslands, grassfed beef, more land than all of new york city, John Lennon, indictment of the regime of Preston Scott Cohen, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 200 thousand dollars for a masters degree, CAD jockies, Frank Gehry, today's graduates don't know the building arts, the art of architecture, the fusion of art and engineering has corroded, ArchitectureAddiction.com, the hard sciences of engineering, rich kids disdain engineering classes, you must be a deep generalist, the soft and hard sciences, Taliesin, laser cutters, Rhino, autoCAD, Building Information Modeling, designing in space, The Verb School, different campuses in different climates, green architecture, verbschool.com, you don't remember what you only hear, most learning's in the library, Yestermorrow, IDP, accreditation and licensing, Habitat for Humanity, consumers of education, teachers don't make education happen, education is what happens inside students, the students' responsibility, Cooper Union, no student activism, The Administration of the Harvard Design School, mesmerized by a CAD screen, Zaha Hadid, SCI-ART,Stand Aside Laws Of Physics! (18:53)
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marriage, after 30 years the license expires, Margaret Mead, working with your hands, raise the level of discourse of the status quo of the received education, construction management at Pratt, receiving a rounded education, a problem with the gobbledygook, IDP, The Intern Development Program, the computer has made everyone lazy and corrupt, Robert Newman's Acoustics Class, stand aside laws of physics!, missing flashings, just because Harvard ranks well doesn't mean it's good, the failure of the current state of the IDP, podcasts, credentialing, adult continuing education, becoming a licensed architect, NAAB, learn how to build a house to bond together and learn a skill, a collaboration between architect and homeowner, a house or a degree, the cost is awesomely discouraging, questioning the worth of education, cost growing faster than inflation, acts of blasphemy against Harvard, Machu Picchu, travel is a huge part of architecture education, you have to travel, there's nothing like seeing it first-hand, a year in the field, the gap year at Cooper Union, the french know how to handle the color green, George Siwicki, Bilbao, the social contract, this is not an anti-intellectual movement, Dan Breindel, architectureaddiction.com, Harvard Design School, an open forum, intellectual dishonesty, a challenge to Preston Scott Cohen, The Storefront for Art and Architecture,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
