Michael Monti Archiculture Extras Interview
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What I've been hearing from deans and chairs and faculty is that the age in which architecture is highly related to theory and form making need to kind of pass away, that this was
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a fixation of the 80s and 90s and now students are learning architecture in a more integrated way. That is, theory has its place, it's essential to understanding architecture and its kind of fundamentals, but knowing how buildings are put together, knowing how the architect works with other disciplines and how the architect works with communities is just as important.
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ACSA is the membership organization for schools of architecture, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. Our members are the professional schools, that is, they have accreditation to produce future architects.
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We were founded in 1912 and we'll be celebrating our 100th anniversary in four years, looking forward to that. There are 127 schools that are our core membership. Ten of those schools are in Canada, the rest are in the U.S. We have affiliate members which are either pre-professional programs or programs outside
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the U.S. that offer architecture degrees. And so the schools pay the dues for ACSA and if you're a faculty member at one of our member schools then you're a member of ACSA and you get to participate in all our activities. I think one generational shift that's going on has to do with the interest in architecture
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students to be involved in the community. Students see architecture not just as a profession like medicine or law, they see it as a kind of service profession on the order of social work or social science where they understand that the work they do affects communities and real people and so they want to involve
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the communities from the beginning in their design process and that's why they go to architecture school. They aren't just there to build the iconic building, they're there to kind of serve the community and to work with regular people. This is something that the architecture profession really saw a groundswell in the early 70s
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with and I think you're seeing a resurgence now in the last five or ten years of that. I'm seeing another generational shift among the faculty. You're seeing faculty that are early in their career that see architecture as a profession in a kind of unified way.
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That is they see design and construction going together. They understand that the studio is an integration of theory and history and structures and building technology and they want the students to learn that comprehensively and they don't see the architect as being just responsible for the design process.
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They want students to understand buildings holistically. One of the things that's coming in architecture school is the virtual classroom. Right now there aren't any accredited schools of architecture that offer online education all the way through. There are some that are doing low residency and taking advantage of that but it hasn't
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gotten to the point where you take studio virtually where you connect with your jurors or with your professor through interactive television or through video conferencing. You don't do critiques like that and once that happens I think you'll be able to see what kind of the next phase is for the integration of all these digital
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tools into the profession.