Creativity is too hard to teach and is often to long a process. Instant
graphic skills and buildings with
sizzle ...as one architect told me take about a 15-18 sec design process.
The working drawings take longer
but that is another story. Architecture as design process is pretty much a
scam. It doesnt exist. What we currently have is dictated by the politics
of design. Like any good scam its circular... designs are prepared for an
undiscrinmating group of people ... note I don't mean uneducated...
(actuallly I have found that the uneducated tend to be more critical
because they are less predisposed to the situation and ask more questions
but often they get "architectural" answers), they dont know good design
because they havnt seen much of it.
Architecture is an abandoend profesion. I think it will make interesting
salvage over the bext 20 years.


At 09:29 AM 3/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>An architect made an interesting comment last night at a symposium - he
>said that the "modern" architectural education he received back in the
>60s expected creativity to spring from student's mind without any
>input.  He has since spent a lot of time learning about Beaux Arts
>traditions both style and method... I always thought that the "modern"
>style and method of teaching was oppressive and here was someone to tell
>me at least in his case i was right not to mention that at UVA I saw
>students drowning in the modern dogma against learning or referring to
>history in their work.
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>LARA
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