Hello,
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I would like to share my opinions on some of the views of Lubomir Popov :
Quote:
" ...Do you know that there are faculty in Architecture who have never heard
about Frank Gehri, Eisenman, Stark, Hall, Miralles,Morphoses, Coop Himmelblau,
Tscuumi, Nouvel and so forth. (They heard about Liebeskind thanks to the local newspapers.)
Or they might have heard, but can not make sense of them"
Lubomir Popov in PHD-DESIGN Digest - 18 Jun 2003 to 19 Jun 2003 (#2003-128)
I strongly oppose to this perspective that links the `worth/value` of
architectural educational institutions directly to knowledge regarding the
`star-system` in architecture, which is accesible to a selected few.
We all know that there is a distinct stratification in architecture.
As in any profession, the professional elite are influential in setting the
standards for what is appropriate to include in the professional domain,
and define which buildings are to be judged as `art` and to be included
in the discourse of architecture (Larson, 1993). This also includes the
expansion and distrubution of an idea of the architects idealized role--
: Architect as the ultimate sole designer of a building project.
And thus, within the number of architectural
schools that would be defined as `good` in Lubomirs view, where the students
do `learn` about Tschumi, Eisenman, etc, I wonder if they also `learn` about
the tens and hundreds of `others` who are also a part of the design process -
many other architects in the team, the engineers, the clients, the contractors,
users if they are allowed to participate, etc that have made possible the
`good architecture`. Not to mention the students which do not get to know
many other good designs, not because they do not exist, but because they are
not made accessible to them, by the dominant elite professional institutions
(which includes the schools).
Architecture has existed/exists/will exist across time and space
well beyond a number of designed-to-be-known architects ,
and so has/are/will be `good` designers and `good` educators
whether or not they are `known` through
books, magazines, newspapers or architecture schools.
Regards,
Burcak Altay.
Reference:
Larson, Magali S. Behind the Postmodern Facade. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993
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