2024-12-23T20:59:31-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150206408/mit-m-arch-graduates-kevin-marblestone-and-emily-whitbeck-investigate-architecture-pedagogy-s-relationship-to-time Katherine Guimapang 2020-07-13T12:42:00-04:00 >2020-08-01T22:41:09-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/22/22ed9d25cdcffd91d3dd6739781e8873.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In their thesis project, graduate students Kevin Marblestone and Emily Whitbeck engage with architectural pedagogy by exploring time and it's relation to the design process. According to the duo, "Architecture needs a new generation of practitioners that can think differently about time."</p> <p>Recent graduates from <a href="https://archinect.com/mitarchitecture" target="_blank">MIT's School of Architecture</a>, Marblestone and Whitbeck make use of time-based media to work through their thesis project <em>Pedagogy of the Fourth Wall</em>. Archinect connected with the duo to learn more about their exploration and dissection of contemporary design pedagogy&nbsp;and their thoughts on the architecture industry as a whole.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1582910/2020-thesis" target="_blank">Archinect's Spotlight on 2020 Thesis Projects</a></strong>:&nbsp;<em>2020 has been an extraordinarily challenging year for architecture graduates. Students were displaced as schools shut down, academic communities had to adapt to a new virtual format, end-of-year celebrations were canceled or changed dramatically, and now these students are graduating into an extremely challen...</em></p>