New Pathways to Architecture Work
What skills matter and how will you pass them on?
“If I was to revamp architecture education, I’d have everybody working construction for two years.”
Discussion guide
Theme: who gets to practice architecture, and which skills and schools could open new pathways.
- What did your education emphasize, and what did it leave out?
- What have you had to learn on your own since leaving school?
- Who gets to call themselves an architect where you live, and who decides?
- Where could learning happen outside school: apprenticeships, free schools, community camps?
- What skills matter and how will you pass them on?
Facilitator tip: ask people to name values as well as skills. Knowing how to share power counts as much as construction knowledge.
“Licensure is tied to the nation state apparatus because of invisible colonial power structures passed off as bureaucratic processes.
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