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how the schools all! re路 thinking design eduJ cation in the face of accelerated cullural production. changes by new technologies,. and altered societal relations between the design producing/ronstructing sector and the lay public.
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The place 01 arthilecturaleducation in a rapidly modernizing world has long been controversial subiect - certainly since 196a when during the uprising in Paris. Ecole des Beaux Artes became a specific focus of student anger and finally II under widespread internal dissention. The extent to which architectural practice tains its distinctiveness and autonomy with regard to other design practices - or extent to which it should attempt to emulate their success - is part of a larger sian of the value of architecturaltradltions in relation to the importance of ''''\it'd",'~ as a relevant and meaningful voice in contemporary culture,
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