Archinect - Small School : Small Practices : Remote Places2024-04-19T21:45:09-04:00https://archinect.com/blog/article/29467903/first-post
First Post brex2011-12-02T01:32:05-05:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
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<strong>We're new at this. </strong> As the program is finishing up its third semester of instruction we are leaving our explorer phase. Now that we've hit 100 students and 5 faculty, we're shifting into pioneers. Next year there'll be the trace of settlers. Truly, though, this school is in a design wilderness. The next nearest architecture school is 3 hours away.</p>
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We're charged with building a library, studios, offices--everything but shops. Those doors were swung wide open by a wonderful throwback palace for a once thriving industrial arts program, now held onto by IA's academic offspring "Construction and Industrial Management". In this shop we can, as the course at MIT claims, make almost anything. Upon arrival we discovered IA natives with skills in both Blacksmithing and CNC 5-Axis Milling. We've begun an excellent relationship with this academic unit and they've helped us find critical traction in our expectation of a performance based curriculum rooted in the flowering moment o...</p>