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Thank you for the opportunity to comment, Brian. I like the "five cups" analogy, as it emphasizes that we cannot just add more requirements onto architecture education, but rather we also need to identify what we would take out to make room for any new requirements. But I am concerned about the underlying premise of the statement, "to insure that graduates would be prepared for practice." I do not think that any professional degree program fully prepares graduates for practice--or rather, I think that academic preparation in a professional program aims to prepare individuals for lifelong learning in a world that is ever-changing. Not short term preparation to be fully prepared to be most useful to today's most conventional practices. Of course, this is not to say that architecture students don't need to learn any tangible skills, but simply that graduates will take those core skills into an unimaginable variety of settings over a lifetime. Back to the five cups exercise, this is also why it's important to leave room for some flexibility and individual determination--as professional degree students are designing their own complete set of skills and experiences even as they complete a professional education. So I would be sure to leave at least two and maybe even three of the five cups empty, to make room for individual self-determination and self-direction. That individual decision-making, it seems, is the essence of a professional. ------------------------------------------- Casius Pealer Assoc. AIA Principal Oystertree Consulting New Orleans LA -------------------------------------------
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-02-2012 16:07
From: Brian Szymanik
Subject: Question #1
During a series of focus groups earlier this spring, an interesting question was posed by one of the participants. If we had five cups, and each cup represented one year of architectural education. What five things would you fill them with to insure that graduates would be prepared for practice? Only one item can go in each cup. This is a challenging question given the complexities of the field, but sparked an incredible conversation. What do you think?
Please share your thoughts.
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Brian Szymanik AIA
Brian Szymanik Architects
Philadelphia PA
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