Changing Education to Push Architecture

AIA Report on Integrated Pratice

“Straightforward supply and demand system”

The article talks about how in order for the architecture community to catch up, BIM must become commonplace in education. The school must think how it can keep up with the changing environment and architectural thinking. It must build a curriculum that integrates this new technology and replaces failing/outdated parts. We must think about the changing needs and persona of the architecture firm. Cheng hints on the fact that schools should start to focus more on the parts of architecture that are changing at a faster rate then dwell on the parts that are growing old.  Again, I refer to the University of Maryland and how the school as not abandoned their original focus, but adapted to the changing architectural environment.

However, Cheng does hint at the fact that everything is not perfect. And even though BIM will help the architecture world, we should not just abandon everything else. Because when you become blinded by one thing you forget to look at everything else.

This article points out how the architecture will start to catch up with everyone else. It must start in our education and how we are taught. We can’t be taught everything in school but we should be taught the important parts. School should focus more on the parts that are ever changing and less on the ones that are outdated. However, that doesn’t me abandon those ideas. A stronger, more strategic curriculum should give architecture the push to catch up.