"Schumacher is so spot on"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating Patrik Schumacher's suggestion that architecture teachers use students to advance their own agendas rather than teach skills for the real world.
Agenda setting: readers are divided over Patrik Schumacher's claims that architecture schools are disconnected from the real world.
"For the first time ever I agree with Schumacher," said Yethica. "Add in the fact that architecture schools charge an arm and a leg for this stuff, unethically, since architects typically don't make a ton of money coming out of school and just end up being in debt forever."
"One hundred per cent agree with him," continued Marmite. "Ever since the academics took over art schools and got rid of professional practitioners this has been getting worse. Academics are totally out of touch and use the students as guinea pigs in their own research projects." "Schumacher's response to academics using students to advance their own agenda ? advance his own instead," replied Rust Belt Brett. "Though I largely agree with what he's saying, teaching everyone parametricism as the hegemony is just exchanging one academic circle jerk for another."
"I agreed broadly up to parametric design. Projects need to have a grounding in reality," added Stuart Taylor.
This commenter also felt Schumacher's claims were hypocritical:
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