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Art seminar week

Art seminar week

Art seminar week. During my tenure at the ETH-Zürich, Switzerland, I discovered how consensus among faculty benefits students.

The following proposal involves consensus and a coming together of faculty to share their individual expertise beyond their classroom, and might be of pedagogical interest for a design school—for example, at my current institution—and is inspired by one offered in Zürich. Let me start by contextualizing that one, and then follow up with a proposal for first-year design studios that currently offer a design foundation to students in architecture, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture.

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Visiting professorships

Visiting professorships. Now, just shy of 40 years of teaching architecture—close to 4,000 students across three continents between undergraduate and graduate design studios, history and theory lectures, and topical seminars—I recognize that I am indebted to my students for the role they have played in my professional growth.

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