Rochester Institute of Technology has received approval from the New York State Department of Education to offer a Master of Architecture program. A collaboration between RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability and the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, the Master of Architecture curriculum focuses on the areas of sustainability and urbanism, including integrated practice such as energy efficiency. — marketwire.com
Something for our Upstate New Yorkers.
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I'm sorry to be so grumpy about this but do we really need another program offering a Master degree, and in sustainability and urbanism to boot? Don't we already have enough schools offering this degree and focus?
Cuz it has nothing to do with "enough schools" anymore; higher education is frank about its business nature these days. Like, will anyone bother to complain another bakery or ice cream parlor opens on the block? Also, be considerate of all the graduates that want to make a living in teaching when they are not given any opportunity to design.
Donna your point seems to beg the question of whether the growth of sustainability degrees is in and of itself perhaps unsustainable?
Sadly I think the growth of Master of Architecture degrees is what is unsustainable, whether they are sustainability-focused degrees or not. Some kind of degree in sustainability-focused development, inhabitation, and consumption might be more valuable, but buildings-as-architecture just aren't that big a deal anymore, IMO (said tongue a little in cheek).
jzxy's comment raises the question of whether this is a problem attributable to larger dynamics within higher education industry (higher ed bubble) or if it is an issue/concern more directly related to "greenwashing" or general growth in marketing sustainability or suing sustainability to market a university....
ah somehow my end comment came after your next one.
tongue and cheek or not, i think the point of buildings-as-architecture is a critical one. Is the next level urbanism, regionalism what? Or perhaps we need to refocus on building (taking it to a small(est) scale)? So building technology and the like.
This is good news. A focus on urbanism is important --- we still need more schools making this a research endeavor.
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