I am currently in M. Arch I @ Pratt but am planning to transfer to Columbia. After talking to a bunch of people though, I was told that Columbia is moving away from the use of computers and computer techniques and is now into more traditional architecture, especially after Mark Wigley took over as Dean. There is also an influx of more conservative professors into the program and a move of the more radical professors into Pratt, AA, & Sci-Arc. Is the edginess of Columbia gone (90s paperless studios)? Would it still be fruitful to transfer to Columbia or should I stay at Pratt?
I think it not about conservatism per se, but about taking the radicalness (I know that's not a word) of the paperless studios in the 90s and trying to find a way to actually build that stuff. So there is interest in digital fabrication and stuff like that. If you actually want to still do the paperless thing, there are still teachers there that do that and you would have that choice.
That being said, there is a move away from the radical professors at the school and I think that's a good thing-they were there for over fifteen years and it was getting tired. There are other things to explore and it was becoming this smug, do-nothing feedback loop.
And I don't see the point in transferring from one school in NYC to another-they all have the same teachers and same crappy facilities anyway.
architecture cannot be cutting edge by its nature... since architect never invent any new technology nor math formular that explains the world... we just use whatever is available.
Why don't you go to some crits and document what you see? Then you can tell us what is really happening. Without evidence you are asking for conjecture. I almost always hear architects talking about what happens in various schools and when I ask them if they have gone there to see a crit they almost always say no - never been there. It would serve you well to check out the competition.
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im glad Columbia is moving after something else than the paperless era... as u said so 90's, which its "sons" are now teaching in other places.... what's cutting edge? is my question, and in other hand, what kind of architectural education (and further professional practice) you are looking for?, i think if u know the answer for this second question then u should easily figure out which school suits u better.....
if i was to go to a school right now.... me and the kind of stuff i like, i would go to SCI-Arc (which i didnt liked their approach when i was in the moment to chose where to continue my education) or Vienna school pf applied arts
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Is Columbia still cutting-edge?
I am currently in M. Arch I @ Pratt but am planning to transfer to Columbia. After talking to a bunch of people though, I was told that Columbia is moving away from the use of computers and computer techniques and is now into more traditional architecture, especially after Mark Wigley took over as Dean. There is also an influx of more conservative professors into the program and a move of the more radical professors into Pratt, AA, & Sci-Arc. Is the edginess of Columbia gone (90s paperless studios)? Would it still be fruitful to transfer to Columbia or should I stay at Pratt?
why are you leaving Pratt's program (if you dont mind me asking?)
my mother's butter knife is more cutting edge.
I think it not about conservatism per se, but about taking the radicalness (I know that's not a word) of the paperless studios in the 90s and trying to find a way to actually build that stuff. So there is interest in digital fabrication and stuff like that. If you actually want to still do the paperless thing, there are still teachers there that do that and you would have that choice.
That being said, there is a move away from the radical professors at the school and I think that's a good thing-they were there for over fifteen years and it was getting tired. There are other things to explore and it was becoming this smug, do-nothing feedback loop.
And I don't see the point in transferring from one school in NYC to another-they all have the same teachers and same crappy facilities anyway.
consider transferring to cali
was columbia ever cutting edge?
why do you want to be avante garde???
avant garde =/= cutting edge.
architecture cannot be cutting edge by its nature... since architect never invent any new technology nor math formular that explains the world... we just use whatever is available.
i would say columbia is progressive.
Why don't you go to some crits and document what you see? Then you can tell us what is really happening. Without evidence you are asking for conjecture. I almost always hear architects talking about what happens in various schools and when I ask them if they have gone there to see a crit they almost always say no - never been there. It would serve you well to check out the competition.
i'm in the mood for a slice of warm cinnamony apple pie and a hot chocolate drink. and then someone to tuck me in. very rear guard stuff.
i heard they've required the first two years of graduate school to present mostly with ink on mylar drawings.
"I hear that you and your band sold your guitars, and bought turntables"
"I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables, and bought guitars"
"architecture cannot be cutting edge by its nature... since architect never invent any new technology nor math formular that explains the world..."
What a bizarrely narrow idea of what cutting edge means...
cutting edge is not meant to be board ^^
"I head that you and your band sold your guitars, and bought computers."
"I heard that you and your band sold your computers and bought some basswood"
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(case in point)
Hey radioactivepuff...who do you have as your design professors?
My ex-gfriend is in the grad school faculty and constantly complaints about student work not being very good.
cutting edge
avant garde / vanguard
forefront
spearheading
any more military terms?
Do they wear brown shirts?
;-)
Yeah, they still use razor blades and drawing boards.
Job Captain sounds militant
actually we don't use architectural scales anymore=CUTTING EDGE!!!
chicarchitect,
the female profs are alex barker, stephanie bayard, ludvica tramontin, anne save de beuccearil...
why who was your chick? :)
chicarchitect,
maybe your ex-girlfriend wasn't doing her job ;)
may be chicarchitect was a student when he met his ex-gal.
muah....
im glad Columbia is moving after something else than the paperless era... as u said so 90's, which its "sons" are now teaching in other places.... what's cutting edge? is my question, and in other hand, what kind of architectural education (and further professional practice) you are looking for?, i think if u know the answer for this second question then u should easily figure out which school suits u better.....
if i was to go to a school right now.... me and the kind of stuff i like, i would go to SCI-Arc (which i didnt liked their approach when i was in the moment to chose where to continue my education) or Vienna school pf applied arts
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