importance of architecture

Deborah A. Jimenez (daj5 who-is-at psu.edu)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:19:10 -0400

hi everyone...i have been a bit buzzy and had not kept up with my email...i
was therefore incredibly intrigued with all these re:the survival of
setting tiles for messages

i was intrigued because even though my master's work is in education, my
first degree was in architecture!!!

i am amazed at the lack of education about architecture...in general ed...
and in particular art ed...

i have for a long time thought about how ridiculous it is that this very
intregal part of our lives is so rarely discussed, questioned, criticized
in the classroom...

i think of the physical material of architecture (the classroom, the
computer, the chairs.. etc.) as the unconscious representation of its
ideological era..it is not a neither nor situation of physicality or
psychology...it is the embodiments of one to the other and
vice-a-versa...they are impossible to separate!!!

maybe this is obvious to some of you...but so many of my peers just don't
see how this could be a reading...

i think a lot of people are interested in how the physical affects the
psychological ( all of us, xmca, want to see the filters of history and
culture added to the lens.) but there are also other scholars who are
investigating these same issues in architecture...i wish to stress the
importance of looking outside our own disciplines to find information!!!

we can not continue to ignore such an absence of architecture in education...
how many of you had studied it beyond this building is blank and built by
blank???

sorry if i seem harsh...i just feel very strong about this issue!!!!

deborah jimenez