In the UK, one of the professional obligations of the architect in
practice is to train the student architect. Practical training is
carried out in offices under office supervision exercised through an
official log book, co-ordinated by a practical training advisor
appointed by each school (a position usually taken very seriously).
Offices are expected to provide proper challenges and opportunities and
to tend the budding architect (student).
In times of recession, architects almost universally forget this, and
demand students are produced as ready office fodder, often looking more
for architectural technicians than budding architects. When times
return to normal, architects suddenly remember what their obligations
and forget that they weren't fulfilling them. This is a repeating loop.
You could ask what architecture schools are for, but that's another
discussion.
Perhaps there is something here for other areas of design?
One for Ken:
"Extraordinary how mathematics helps you to know yourself" Samuel
Beckett, Molloy
Ranulph
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