What' s at the Bottom Of and Beyond Expansion?

摘要

In this feature, we take note of graduate schools to catch the wind of today's architectural education.rnIn part 1, on recognition, we take a look at the environment that architectural education is in by using editorial board data and a contribution by Takashige Ishikawa from the AIJ Committee on Architectural Education. As you know, it's said that an era of easy access to undergraduate schools came in the last few years in Japan. Plus, the students sent to undergraduate schools belong to a so-called generation of pressure-free education. Many undergraduate school teachers complain that the students' achievement and eagerness to study have been decreasing. Yet there are movements such as MEXT's guidance reinforcement, the taking of JABEE accreditation, stricter judgment of requirements for qualification for examinations of registered architects, and so on. In these conditions, we can say that undergraduate education is tending to stabilize a leveled framework and is exercising less freedom in designing original educational content, can't we?