2024-11-24T05:17:07-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/41177628/architecture-school-1990-2012-the-future-that-is-now Places Journal 2012-03-12T16:32:00-04:00 >2012-03-19T05:03:51-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ho/hodelhdar5bilpc8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It is possible to say without too much exaggeration that we now inhabit a version of the future William Gibson first described 25 years ago.... an accumulation of smaller changes, the consequences of which are subtle and all-pervasive as technology has increasingly lodged in unanticipated aspects of our lives. As Gibson has observed, the actual future is often more nuanced and unexpected than the imagined future.</p></em><br /><br /><p> In a chapter from the new book&nbsp;<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12869" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Architecture School</em></a> (MIT Press), edited by Joan Ockman, Princeton School of Architecture Dean Stan Allen traces the history&nbsp;of architecture education over the past two decades&nbsp;&mdash; as he says, a volatile period during which "rapid technological and social changes presented complex challenges to practice and education."</p>