Discussion, Oh would like to do that and have a letter in the
postponed file that i was just finishing and ready to send you when
your post flashed as an incoming message. Was considering a trip
and wondered if we could take the studio tour first hand and discuss
it on site. We have a trip to planned and may be able to get together
if you are interested. I do agree with you on many points and those
are some of the windmill jousting events that i have had at that
dean ship level which is a pivotal catch basin of problems and for
the most part paradigm shifts come hard. I guess this is where you
tell me you are a Dean and the problem is from higher on the pryamid
and we can't come-- :~} Regardless i am going to go to the postponed file
now, soo get ready now. :-) jb
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John Belt, Design Faculty Phone: (Office)315-341-2868
Department of Technology (Studio)315-341-2867
SUNY Oswego Fax: 315-341-3363
Oswego, NY 13126
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Howard Ray Lawrence wrote:
> LEARNING by means of design process and visual communication problems
> occurs in a studio setting more than TEACHING.
>
> First, I am not in favor of the studio in its present state.
>
> It is noisy, poorly lighted, poorly ventilated, without excellent
> communication systems, poorly maintained, without sufficient supplies of
> quality food and drink, without adequate rest and recreation facilities;
> and it is just not a home away from home for students.
>
> I believe that it is more of a social and cult-building environment.
> It conditions students to believe that they will eventually have to go to
> an office, and work with an authority, than to do it on their own terms and
> in their own place.
>
> The student's "home" would be much more accomodating to this kind of
> learning; and it necessarily would have to be reinforced by scheduled
> reviews of the student's work by the faculty/others related to solving a
> specific problem. In the home, all of the things absent from the studio
> would be present---except an expectation by the student that an authority
> would answer questions.
>
> I believe that an architect is a potential architect even before entering a
> school of architecture. The architect brings the talent with the person.
> I would much rather see architecture as an apprenticeship than in a school
> setting. Do the thing you want to do. Do not just pretend to do it! Seek
> out and respect the master architect as a guide. Do not go to a school,
> and study with anyone you do not respect, just to get grades, a diploma,
> then a license to practice architecture. You either are one from the
> start, or you are not one.
>
> I guess this might cause some discussion? ;-)
>
> .H.
>
> H o w a r d R a y L a w r e n c e
>
> College of Arts and ARCHITECTURE
> The Pennsylvania State Univeristy
> University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
>
> Voice: 814 863 0972
> Fax: 814 865 3289
> url: http://www.personal.psu.edu/hrl/
>
postponed file that i was just finishing and ready to send you when
your post flashed as an incoming message. Was considering a trip
and wondered if we could take the studio tour first hand and discuss
it on site. We have a trip to planned and may be able to get together
if you are interested. I do agree with you on many points and those
are some of the windmill jousting events that i have had at that
dean ship level which is a pivotal catch basin of problems and for
the most part paradigm shifts come hard. I guess this is where you
tell me you are a Dean and the problem is from higher on the pryamid
and we can't come-- :~} Regardless i am going to go to the postponed file
now, soo get ready now. :-) jb
---------------------------------------------------------------------
John Belt, Design Faculty Phone: (Office)315-341-2868
Department of Technology (Studio)315-341-2867
SUNY Oswego Fax: 315-341-3363
Oswego, NY 13126
---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Howard Ray Lawrence wrote:
> LEARNING by means of design process and visual communication problems
> occurs in a studio setting more than TEACHING.
>
> First, I am not in favor of the studio in its present state.
>
> It is noisy, poorly lighted, poorly ventilated, without excellent
> communication systems, poorly maintained, without sufficient supplies of
> quality food and drink, without adequate rest and recreation facilities;
> and it is just not a home away from home for students.
>
> I believe that it is more of a social and cult-building environment.
> It conditions students to believe that they will eventually have to go to
> an office, and work with an authority, than to do it on their own terms and
> in their own place.
>
> The student's "home" would be much more accomodating to this kind of
> learning; and it necessarily would have to be reinforced by scheduled
> reviews of the student's work by the faculty/others related to solving a
> specific problem. In the home, all of the things absent from the studio
> would be present---except an expectation by the student that an authority
> would answer questions.
>
> I believe that an architect is a potential architect even before entering a
> school of architecture. The architect brings the talent with the person.
> I would much rather see architecture as an apprenticeship than in a school
> setting. Do the thing you want to do. Do not just pretend to do it! Seek
> out and respect the master architect as a guide. Do not go to a school,
> and study with anyone you do not respect, just to get grades, a diploma,
> then a license to practice architecture. You either are one from the
> start, or you are not one.
>
> I guess this might cause some discussion? ;-)
>
> .H.
>
> H o w a r d R a y L a w r e n c e
>
> College of Arts and ARCHITECTURE
> The Pennsylvania State Univeristy
> University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
>
> Voice: 814 863 0972
> Fax: 814 865 3289
> url: http://www.personal.psu.edu/hrl/
>