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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):

Will Alsop:
"Appointments";
Keynote Lecture: THE - At the Heart of Higher Education Debate, University for the Creative Arts (invited); 06-27-2013.



English abstract:
University for the Creative Arts
Will Alsop
The man who designed the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône ("Le Grand Bleu") in Marseilles and the Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library in South London joins the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury as professor of architecture. Will Alsop said that the institution is "the only place in this country, with the exception of the Royal College of Art, where you can learn to be an architect in the same building as you can learn to be an artist". It used to be "commonplace" for fine art and architecture to be in neighbouring or the same buildings, he observed, "but that all started to change back in the 1960s when someone decided architecture was a science. Not that it doesnīt involve some science, but you donīt have to headline that in particular." He said that the "time is ripe" to re-examine how architects are trained. "I think they need to be more Renaissance... Iīm exaggerating a little bit, but there has [recently] been a period where architectural institutions thought you should be training people to work in an office, which is actually a very boring thing to do." Professor Alsop said that he wished to "diversify the whole experience from something thatīs very practical to something thatīs fun - but always in a learning environment". He was formerly a tutor in sculpture at Saint Martins School of Art (now part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, a constituent college of the University of the Arts London).

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