Khammash Architects, Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, Ajloun, Jordan, 2013
Since the economic downturn in 2008, liberal arts colleges and universities across the country have reshaped their curriculums. They have narrowed the fields of study to prepare students for vocational work quantified by employment and statistical analysis, shearing the visual arts––in part or whole––from the intellectual mold that has underpinned students’ critical thinking in the United States over the past century.
I really wanted to get away from my origins. I think origins in terms of where you are born are very important but academic origins can be an enormous constraint.
Richard Serra, Interview with Charlie Rose, 2001
This was the order of human institutions: first the forests, after that the huts, then the villages, next the cities, and finally the academies.
Giambattista Vico, New Science, 1725 (via harrison)
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Charles Percier, Premier Prix Plan of a Building to House the Academies, 1786 (via archiveofaffinities)