School and Profession
“Still more confusion is widespread in the schools, where
the student’s revolt uncovered once and for all the stupidity and indolence of
the academic bodies.”
Giancarlo De Carlo, p. 12
There is always talk about the disconnect between schools of
architecture and the profession, and what it is that separates them. It seems
that over time the list of differences between them has become shorter, which
is good especially if we want the relationship between the two to be healthy.
However, it is obvious and necessary that schools of architecture operate
differently. School is the place for us to explore new techniques and push the
limits of possibility for the design of architecture, but it is also the place
for us to maximize our knowledge and ability to design for the user.
Every studio project that we complete is always revolving
around the spaces that we can create for the user, while typically leaving out
a client. I appreciate this aspect of studio because it allows us to deepen our
narratives while producing something that becomes valuable and effective for
the user. Projects like our Refugee centers for the COTE studio as well as the COE
in Haiti that we are currently participating in. It is this type of project
that allows us to understand the impact our designs can make on a community and
the user. Fortunately, there are also professional practices that take on these
types of projects and attempt to create user-directed projects.
Yes, same feeling! The school and work are feeling like a different language system. there is something must be wrong. if the school is not that will be the work. If both of them is not I am wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe thing we learned in school part is more for the "why", and when we try to get more about "how", the answer is "there must be a way to do, thinking more about why". But in woking, the all problem is about "how". When I ask "why", the answer is "because of the code".
I think that the disconnect between education and practice is a failure in the profession. However, I find it very exciting and maybe idealist to imagine that our generation will be changing the professional world soon and maybe going into it with the knowledge that we ought to bridge this gap is pretty wonderful.
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