Online Architecture Degree Programs?
Q: Can you point me toward a source for online arts degrees? I have only seen business and general studies degrees, although one place offers a criminology degree. Another offers masters in education or labor relations.
A: Rarely in architecture school did we have a site for our projects that we could actually visit....we had projects in the desert of New Mexico, in along the shore of the Atlantic in South Africa and other places we'll most likely never actually visit... and this is common for architecture schools. As far as an education goes, it doesn't matter, if we're comparing how its been done in the past. I was lucky that at Broward Community College, thw two lead professors in the first two years of architecture curriculum were actually practicing architects. For all projects we did, even schematic charettes, we had a site we could go to and analyze/sketch at. Then at U of F, while most of the faculty was not made of practicing architects, this trend continued anyway. Every undergraduate project we had was based on a real site, with real objectives and program- a bank in the center of Gainesville, Kanapaha botanical gardens, a sailing school near Cedar Key, an inn in Savannah, a multipurpose theatre on campus. The same trend continued in graduate school, with a McDonald's competition, a charette at High Museum in Atlanta, a cultural center on campus and two urban development projects, one in Maitland, where we made presentations to the town council, and the second a redevelopment of an old industrial lot into a marina- the property owned by an investment firm, to which we again made presentations. I also lucked out in having a structures professor who preferred hands-on experience and would frequently get us to visit construction sites on campus, or wherever we could. We also had some construction detailing on some projects. You're way out of your league, dood. I was doing this shit when your DAD was wearing 3 cornered drawers and shittin' yellow. Your mindset is exactly what Gary and I have been describing. YOU sponged off your parents for 4-5 years and now you think the world owes you something. Well, let me be the first to tell you. The world doesn't owe you jack shitski. You will get out of this