Mark Cousins

The lecture was held during Stocktaking Part 1 -- "Architecture and its Pasts" -- in September 2010, and relates to the overall theme described below.
It is frequently acknowledged that teaching architectural history has become problematic in contemporary schools of architecture. Students and studio-teachers question the relevance of learning about architectural history in an increasingly dense curriculum. Additionally, in the last 30 years the narratives of architectural history have themselves been historicised, theorised and deconstructed. What is this history and why is it taught? How can it usefully contribute to the training of architectural practitioners?

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In the last few minutes, prof said that, we are not asking student about what an effect of a historical door but what you observed, it's very similar to the notion of "tacit knowledge" that means you do know but you're never asking why.

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Astonishing, for ten minutes in, he shames beginning architecture students for not knowing classical orders, but then never explains or speaks about the subject he claims to know about: yet in the age of Internet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order

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moron.