It looks like Harvard is now offering a program tailored to architectural leaders...
Executive Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) provides a dynamic environment for architects, design professionals, real estate leaders, government officials, policy makers, and scholars from around the world to address emerging issues affecting their fields, learn new management strategies, and develop best practices.
Drawing upon the unparalleled resources of Harvard University, our programs are led by renowned faculty from the GSD, the Business School, the Law School, and the Kennedy School of Government, as well as eminent practitioners and scholars from across the country and around the world.
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murdered by capital
great. nobody will be able to say that some news posts has nothing to do with architecture anymore...
definetly there is now a need for a news filter 'type executive'.
cant wait to see who signs up to do the Executive Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Design / archinect blog
these are really scarey words...
"• Defining your values and putting them to work
• Building a strategic vision
• Leading a creative workforce
• Managing talent
• Finding the time to lead "AKA -stop surfing the net"
• Effecting leadership succession within your organization. "
i think this is a good thing. architecture needs better leaders with scope beyond soley architecture, but people who understand its role in society, and within an economic framework. this is when architecture will become more widely appreciated and understood by society.
people like lee iacocca
i'm with hollenstein...if more architects put together a business proposal (hell, even thought about their business plan) before starting up another office...the architectural profession would be much better paid and (according to my own theories) design would actually become better and not worse...i''m all for it. congrats to harvard for launching it.
...so what about all the successful architects who do "bad" design? seems they already have a good business model. I'm not sure I agree that a better business model creates better design. what we need is an educated public, developers who give a damn, and a rigorous competition program that gives young creative architects the oppuritunity to build now rather than later. an ameropan type competition would be better than serving more interests of capital!
lead to where?
industrial farming is good business but not so good for the small growers in central valley. the use of industrial and chemical substances to grow food is good business?
get ready for iacocca types in the mega offices giving directives for well designed vinyl villages.
as if harvard hasn't capitalized enough on its many MBA programs, so they now have one tailored for us poor architects...
and like those MBA programs, except for the right connections and a harvard alumni mailbox there is probably very little to gain from attending such a program.
if the business models out there are producing bad products i don't really think they're good business models. this is part of the problem of architecture as a profession we are all taught to fear financial success from the word go...and it isn't an either/or situation for money and creativity...it's just that most people who are good with money aren't creative about how they utilize it and those that are creative are too afraid to get any money because then they might be considered a sellout. i call an end to the defeatist neo-marxism of architecture and throw myself into the fire of critical capitalism...let the chips fall where they may
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