Beatriz Colomina: "Architecture PhD"

The lecture was held during Stocktaking Part 1 -- "Architecture and its Pasts" -- in September 2010, and relates to the overall theme described below.
It is frequently acknowledged that teaching architectural history has become problematic in contemporary schools of architecture. Students and studio-teachers question the relevance of learning about architectural history in an increasingly dense curriculum. Additionally, in the last 30 years the narratives of architectural history have themselves been historicised, theorised and deconstructed. What is this history and why is it taught? How can it usefully contribute to the training of architectural practitioners?

[@ArkitekFAA]

Interesting insight

[@skstan1965]

Colomina does not mention that plenty of architects never studied architecture, it was part of working with architects, such as Frank Lloyd Wright or even Le Corbusier. But please distinguish interesting theorists like Kwinter from old-fashioned historians like Cousins at the AA, and other historians who follow art history, like Hal Foster, who do not get the difference between art and architecture.

[@Lugo42]

If only architects who wrote have found a place in the History of architecture, maybe we should blame it on the Architecture Historians who search in the books instead of searching in the buldings right ?