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Architecture education has "shifted away" from fire safety, experts say on Grenfell anniversary

Deezen

On the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower disaster , fire safety specialists have attacked UK architecture schools for failing to adequately teach students about the subject. Should we look at the building regulations with respect or as something to be got round? It is also a cultural issue: is it important?

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. What I love most about the Architecture industry is that it is sooo vast. The Profession.

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Ten postgraduate architecture projects by Paris School of Architecture

Deezen

It is the only entirely postgraduate architecture school in France teaching solely in the English language and prepares its graduates to operate across Europe and the rest of the world. Paris School of Architecture is pedagogically radical. The deregulated and low-tax free-port inevitably attracts the wealthy.

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"Both sides in the style wars are equally wrong"

Deezen

Last week the century-old squabble between modernism and historicism raised its tired old head once again after a UK government minister backed a report advocating a more "tradition"-friendly new architecture school. and be governed by the answer, whether it requires regulation, restraint, technical change or lifestyle adaptation.

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Architecture education needs "decolonisation and decarbonisation" says London School of Architecture head Neal Shasore

Deezen

Shasore plans to use his previous experience as a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge's architecture school and as a course tutor for the MArch professional practice studio at the Royal College of Art to overcome some of the potential pitfalls that architecture institutions fall into when trying to become more inclusive.

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"So confident, so fluid, so good" says commenter

Deezen

Defined by its brightly coloured volumes and sweeping curves, the Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School was created as a retreat from traditional forms of education. The spaces created stimulate imagination and surprise, instead of simply following the rules and regulations," Beijing-based Trace Architecture Office told Dezeen.

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Be Better

EntreArchitect

Our architectural educations should be viewed more as personal improvement, building our skills and reinforcing our knowledge, and less as a ticket to professional exclusivity. The lessons we learn and the skills we acquire during our time in architecture school make us unique to any other people on earth. We are taught to see.