2024-12-04T03:54:05-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/84166563/editor-s-picks-337 Nam Henderson 2013-10-14T23:46:00-04:00 >2013-10-16T05:48:51-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/y0/y040uqxnorl2aggs.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <a href="http://archinect.com/AmeliaTH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amelia Taylor-Hochberg,</a> Editorial Manager for Archinect, traveled to Aedes Network Campus Berlin as a fly-on-the-wall, and reported back with <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/83387409/7-lessons-from-the-3rd-international-architectural-education-summit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Lessons from the 3rd International Architectural Education Summit</a>.&nbsp;These were; 1) <strong>The relevancy of the &ldquo;Architect&rdquo; is fleeting</strong>, 2) <strong>Kids today don&rsquo;t know a thing about radicalism</strong>, 3) <strong>The powers that be are male, and architecture is a gender-divisive practice</strong>, 4) <strong>Architects need to be &ldquo;strategically naive&rdquo;</strong>, 5) <strong>Architectural authority is not above democratic authority (?)</strong>, 6) <strong>Form before finances</strong> and lastly 7) <strong>The student has become the master (at least regarding computers)</strong>.</p> <p> <strong>In response </strong><strong>Thayer-D</strong> opined "<em>The main problem with architectural education isn't the lack of branding or radicalism, or even male dominated pedagogy (although that does suck).&nbsp; It's the lack of faith that tackling the myriad of issues associated with any given project will result in the most compelling and present project possible, regardless of one's aesthetic proclivi...</em></p>