Comments on: How Architects Learn: What Architecture Could Learn from Experimental Music

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:33:39 +0000

As a student in architecture school at the moment, I am relieved to see that there are criticisms of the current teaching methodologies. I am getting tired of not actually BUILDING anything occupiable or practical. Architects are not designing for people anymore. Flexible design may be an approach to rectifying this. Thanks for the thought-provoking article.

By: Adam Keys

Adam Keys — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:17:49 +0000

This is yet another way in which software development is a bizarre endeavor.
Grad students: Hey, we’re going to take down Microsoft with this algorithm that ranks search results based on how people link their Geocities pages.
John Doerr: Here’s a bucket of cash. Go for it!
Your heuristic is applicable to all project, methinks. Jot the big ideas down in your big ideas notebook and tackle the ones you can build without bankrupting yourself.

By: Mort

Mort — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:22:31 +0000

I felt the same way about law school (don’t laugh). The process prepared me for trial practice as if reading a legal dictionary was all that was needed. At the time, I envied med students who at least had access to cadavers to poke around inside of – but was told by a Dr. that a polkiing into a live one was a bit different.