Don't tell grad students carting around six-figure debt, but those who wish to learn from one of the masters of architecture can now do so for $90. MasterClass, a San Francisco-based educational video company, is now taking pre-orders for an online class taught by none other than Frank Gehry himself. Students can sign up for the class, which offers "video lessons from the instructor, interactive exercises, course materials, peer interaction, and more." Watch the trailer below to see what you'll likely learn as Frank winds his way through his model archive (and memories of nearly six decades of professional practice)...
I think it's great he's doing this. To me it's not offensive or about earning a degree, nobody's saying you'll become an architect after these video lessons and nobody will hire you based on following them but I'm sure you can pick up a thing or two if you want. It's just like lynda.com but with Frank instead. I applaud everybody who wants to help spread the education of people in architectural matters, even a guy like Gehry.
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disconnected egomaniac in it for humanity
I can teach the same for 5$
That price also includes a cardboard t-shirt and commemorative chain-link paperweight.
^if that chain-link paper-weight has precariously sharp edges then I might be interesting. It'll keep my stack of working drawings in place on my desk and deter other office folks from messing with my things.
At the end of the video you can sign up for the "real" video for 400 and so on.
What's with all of these reputable institutions selling sham online courses? Ugh...
Sounds a lot like Trump "University" to me.
Welcome to the wonderful world of "distance learning." It's not going anywhere, and more and more degrees will be acquired this way.
The idea of distance/online architecture ed is particularly offensive. It's like learning to be a heart surgeon or sculptor online--dumb. But perfect for our pseudoarchitecture age
Obviously a front for his webcam sex show.
I think it's great he's doing this. To me it's not offensive or about earning a degree, nobody's saying you'll become an architect after these video lessons and nobody will hire you based on following them but I'm sure you can pick up a thing or two if you want. It's just like lynda.com but with Frank instead. I applaud everybody who wants to help spread the education of people in architectural matters, even a guy like Gehry.
he makes it look very simple, perhaps the profession is not lost after all.
It's always easy in retrospect.
I can see this as a critique on the organizational structure of arch ed. Now there is only one path: 6 years of education, Lots of $ for ed and to start up. Older archs keep the system because they get $ from excessive teaching. FLW had a few years of U Wisconsin and look what he did. Today he wouldn't be allowed to practice.
The organizational structure leads to a concentration of talent and great architecture for the %1 and none for anybody else. Getting rid of regulations on architecture would unleash it onto the world.
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