HISTORY & THEORY

摘要

What has become of the academy? In the pages of journals such as Praxis, Log, and Perspecta, as well as in a recent rash of symposia at schools around the world, criticality and theory, not long ago at the center of pedagogical thinking, have come under attack by proponents of "post-critical" thought, or as it has been more recently refigured, "projective architecture." Some colleges are cutting back on theory offerings, liberating the core reguirements-and with them the faculty—for courses that seem more directly applicable to the education of an architect, such as instruction in Maya animation software or branding. Other schools are doing away with history/theory programs entirely under the guise of streamlining and efficiency, glad to put troublesome theorists more directly under the supervision of designers. Not since Walter Gropius's mythical elimination of history from the GSD curriculum has critical theory been so under attack.