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SEGOVIA, SPAIN
Do architecture schools train accountable professionals to meet the demands of accreditation bodies? Or do they empower elite observers and artists who listen to and enact what the world wants architecture to be?
With 22 high-profile deans and professors on stage, and with many more m the audience, the biannual International Architectural Education Summit was not short of ideas OLI these issues. But the gathering, which was co-hosted by UCLA and IE University at the latter 's home in Segovia near Madrid, covered too many topics and failed to engage in meaningful debate. Martha Thorne and the other organisers must surely have been disappointed that her call for 'disagreement that would prompt progress' went unfulfilled.
In fact agreement reigned everywhere. In the first of four sessions, contributors assented that 'cross- and inter-transdisciplinary' teaching was...