by Michael J. Monti, ACSA Executive Director

Each year the AIA New York Chapter brings the area’s 14 deans together for a moderated roundtable discussion. This year’s moderator, Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE) and a partner at SHoP Architects, asked the question: 

Is architectural education the “last self-generative and synthetic pedagogical” form? 

That is to say, architectural education teaches students to observe, synthesize, articulate both problems and solutions. 

The discussion took off from there, looking at the assumptions about how architectural education is different from other disciplines (especially the design disciplines), and more. 

Read the story and watch the video online (links below).