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G.I.T. to restructure and blend Architecture/ID education

By Rain Noe - July 28, 2009

in design.edu

As an Industrial Design college student, the only chance I had to interact with Architecture--or Architorture, as they called it--students was when something in their shop broke and they came to use ours. They'd come in, bang out a couple cuts on the tablesaw and go back to their holes. We saw each other at parties, sure, but by then we were all too burnt-out to discuss our projects and the only structures we collaborated on were beer-can pyramids. Changing times? The Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture is currently looking at restructuring their curriculum, to foment more interaction between Architecture, Industrial Design and Building Construction students.

The proposed changes include a massive overhaul of Tech's undergraduate program to prepare students for a fast-changing work force. A new bachelor of science in design would replace the current undergraduate degrees in architecture, building construction and industrial design.

The idea is to have a sort of second Foundation Year, this one "focusing more on real-world problems and situations within architecture, construction and industrial design," keeping students together for a bit longer before breaking them into their separate disciplines, and hopefully fostering greater understanding of each other's fields. So far the plan is received mixed reviews; read all about it here.

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