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UVA's Dean Search: A Chance to Restore a Lost Education

2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (590+ words) In the summer before my senior year of high school, I walked the Lawn at the University of Virginia (UVA) for the first time. Like tens of thousands of students before me, I was captivated by the Rotunda. More than…...

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What I Learn From Teaching Architecture

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (322+ words) I have been asked to teach architecture several times over the past 40 years. I can do this without academic credentials, other than the enhanced bachelor's degree of a BArch, because I'm fully enmeshed in doing the very things students are…...

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Why Architects Need to Commit to Educating the Public

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (512+ words) This is the problem that Architecture Week, the AIA's education outreach initiative, exists to solve. This isn't a new observation. More than a decade ago, Common Edge co-founder Martin C. Pedersen made exactly this argument, pushing the AIA to redirect its…...

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The Department of Education Has Classified Architects as "Non-Professional." Why This Matters.

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (90+ words) By Michael J. Crosbie Featured image via Work BC. Michael J. Crosbie is a Connecticut-based architect and writer who teaches at the University of Hartford and is Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor. The author of and contributor to some…...

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