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From: Noah Greenberg <snowin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: alt.architecture
Subject: Re: Students - Professionals - Are/were you prepared?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:35:18 -0700
IMHO, i question the desire of the profession to be infused with a
mass of highly technically trained, but contextually and creatively
dulled, interns. If I wanted to be a draftsman the rest of my life, I'd
never have gone to graduate school. That i can cope with the A101 etc.,
is not so much the result of formal education ("the schools"), but more a
result of experience, and my realisation that education is everpresent
inside or outside of school.
IMHO, the article made some good points about co-op education,
however, i do think that architectural education doesn't begin and end
with a degree program. The role of internships, and IDP, is also supposed
to be part of one's architectural education. There are certainly things
about the profession which one simply can not learn in school, and
there are things in school that one won't learn in the profession.
Recognition of that by the relevant parties seems like a good first step.
:-)
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