This week

摘要

In 1979 architect and activist Brian Anson helped set up the first Winter School, entitled 'Whose Education is it Anyway?'. Conceived as a form of alternative architectural education, independent from what some deemed a corrupt and moribund academic system, the annual event tailed off in the mid-90s. Now the Winter School is back. ManTownHuman is in charge, the group whose 2008 manifesto complained that 'architecture has never been more vacuous, pliant, parochial and insular'. Writing to promote this year's Winter School, the group's front man and former AJ technical editor, Austin Williams, said: 'There is nothing radical about current architectural education. It is now so mainstream that it sounds like the environmental industry's PR machine.'