Architectural pedagogy has become stale. Schools spin old wheels as if something is happening but so little is going on. Students wait for a sense of activist engagement with a rapidly evolving world but graduate before it happens. The fact that they wait for instruction is already the problem. Teachers likewise worry too much about their place in the institutional hierarchies. — The Architectural Review
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Academia does engage with the players, it is just not quick to prescribe tradtionalism as a one nostalgia fits all.
On several occasions Duany has cherry-picked certain highways to fit his example of segregating infrastructure.
Arquitectonia has done a better job at addressing the modern international city, walkable even. Duany should have stayed with them instead of siding with conservatives.
The faux-old network is cozy with conservatism on many other fronts: the civic arts society blocking frank gehry in DC, prince charles and leon krier stopping Richard Rogers, the Driehaus prize which awards all the dinosaurs, various neoclassical counter-proposals, and especially those preservation societies which are so easily offended.
Think I will go sleep on the couch....and get my head together....academics and architecture can sometimes be so unrelated to real life. Somehow there is never a real client in educational academic exercises. You know one who cuts you off just below the knees because of budget, regulation or their own personal design beliefs. Ya, I'm headed to the couch now....going to go escape endless emails from clients, structural engineers, an all the other assorted things which find a comfortable home in my mail box.
Anything new on the subject matter? Is the situation better, worst or the same? Just trying to revive the good conversation after stumbling on the AR mention six years ago.
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