VOICES OF THE UNHEARD

摘要

Ten years ago, on my first day of architecture school, I walked into a lecture hall filled with Apple laptops-something I could not afford-and felt an overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I asked myself: do I belong here? This was perhaps my first encounter with how privileged the underpinnings of both the education and profession of architecture really are. I had stepped into a profession that took pride in its students flying to Europe to intern for renowned architects for no pay-and then celebrated this fact upon seeing it on their resumes. This idea of "success" contributed to a culture of competitiveness in the school, which, along with a primarily Western, Eurocentric bias to theory and practice, would have a lasting impact on my architectural education.