An undulating lobby ceiling that Isamu Noguchi sculpted in the 1940s has emerged at a U-Haul branch in St. Louis, two decades after it was hidden by partitions and dropped ceiling panels. Noguchi designed the feature, known as a lunar landscape, for the building’s original owner, the American Stove Company. — New York Times
The ceiling was discovered back in 2015 and immediately many began to advocate for its preservation. The New York Times reports David Conradsen, the St. Louis Museum of Art's decorative arts and design curator said that experts had contemplated removing the sculpture to transfer it to the museum, but concluded that it would be destroyed in the removal process.
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Urban archeology. It should be a sub-major in architectural schools.
architectural schools should first solve their internal problems,eliminate faculty biases and have their students and faculty reflect underlying social demographics before venturing into larger urban issues.
Why not both? Studios need projects to do while all the structural change takes place. Because if the interesting projects aren't there, nobody will be around to teach, learn, administrate, and bloviate.
its about people first not projects.If you run an organization and the people are satisfied 70% of the time you can accomplish much.Medical schools and the military get it even though not perfect. https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/accreditation-standards-succeed-driving-diversity-medical-schools
So... no projects? Then, no studio or coursework, right? Why would an architecture student enroll and pay tuition if there's no design curriculum? How would the med school case work without patients and subjects, then?
Democratic and represented demographics, yes! But, we shouldn't cancel the content which my post was about.
but papd, preserving the outstanding work of a minority designer can do more to eliminate assumed biases than trying to socially engineer demographics of faculty and/or students...
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