February 21, 2003

What's Really Wrong With Education for Architects Today

To the Editor:

In citing the inadequacies of the proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site, Sarah Williams Goldhagen rightly cites deficiencies in the education of architects and their clients' ignorance of architectural matters ("Our Degraded Public Realm: the Multiple Failures of Architecture Education," The Review, January 10). These are the fruits of the present curriculum in architecture. ...

Goldhagen acknowledges that the "ego-driven money spenders" emerging