"Who are those architects?" Among others, the one I was referring to at archinect. Many architect that I know see themselves as artists or philosophers before they seem themselves as craftsmen.
I have worked with architects who tried to apply their thinking into an online context. Wouldn't say it was exactly a success. It's just two different animals. "Your characterization of architectural education, and of architects, does not match my experience or what I've heard described by others." Perhaps you can't see the forest for the threes? Perhaps I know other architects than you. Perhaps you don't see your friends as being artsy. None the less the issue is there. So you don't find it telling that the glossy magazines show these artsy architects if there is no one who thinks like that or are interested in architecture like that? "The "artistes"/divas constitute a very small percentage of the population; most architects I know are looking to design problems within real-world constraints." I am sure they do. But the question is still what they see themselves as. Artist or craftsmen. "I think less hyperbole would be even better." How can it be hyberbole by writing "many schools" it is many schools that have architecture as part of the "faculty of arts" which obviously will affect how things are taught. And it is many architects who think of their field as more art than craft. That does not mean all do, just that many do and those are the ones I am referring to. Claiming that they are few is simply against my experience. Sorry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46168 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
