By
Barie
Fez-Barringten:
Associate
Professor: Global University
www.bariefez-barringten.com
bariefezbarringten@gmail.com
www.bariefez-barringten.com
bariefezbarringten@gmail.com
Abstract
Twenty-first
century education of architects is further challenged by new markets, users and
contractual situations and whole countries and civilizations which here-to-fore
had little or no need for professional architectural services as practiced in
already industrialized and developed nations.
Further to
this is the impact of a long lasting world-wide recession and slowed economies
which has produced fewer employment opportunities, and with it pessimistic
prospects for graduating architects.
Students today need even more care and concern to better prepare them
for these "creative" opportunities.
This
monograph embraces some of the best minds "education"
has known for guidance and direction.
Our new generation of architectural educational planners will need
perspective, theme, direction and purpose with which to discuss the many
details of programs and curriculums. This
monograph is particularly grateful to Max Wingo's 1974 work on the "Philosophies
of education : an introduction" from the University of Michigan;
Paul Nash's 1968 work on "Models of Man", Ozman and
Craver's 1981 work "Philosophical Foundations of Education"
Joseph P. Congemi's 1977: "Higher education and the development of
self‑actualizing personalities; Reginald D.Archambault's 1965 work:
"Philosophical analysis and education; Mehdi: Nakosteen;s
1965 work on "The history and philosophy of education; Solon
T. Kimball's 1974 work on "Culture and the education process";
Murray G.Ross's 1976 "The University"; Brian V.Hill's
1973: "Education and the endangered Individual"
and other works by Paul Weiss, William J. Gordon, and George Dodds.
This
monograph largely depends upon quotes and paraphrases from their reviews of
John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Alfred North
Whitehead, Brian F. Skinner, R.S. Peters, Walter Kaufman, P.H. Hirst, John
Wilson, George Berkley, Martin Buber, Emil Brunner, Soren Kiekegard, Frederick
Froebel, L.Joughin, , and their references to Saint Thomas, Aristotle and
Plato. The vocabulary they provide will
prove valuable to articulate applicable approaches.
There are
two matrix figures which summarize the basic positions of educational
philosophies and the structure of the university related to the
cognitive function.
1"Metametaphors" reveals
that by including a variety of philosophies, ideas, concepts, 2 pedagogues,
issues and concerns to the higher education of architects interactive and
combinative qualities can be synthesized in a single cognate. We can see one thread running throughout
history relevant to the architect we want to educate.
Additionally,
architects and educators who are thrust into the precarious position of having
to design, plan and generally emote architectural curricula usually carry out
this charge in an isolated atmosphere.
It is the intention of this monograph to promote metaphor's
role in looking beyond one's own context to profit by anthers and with the
attitude that an interdisciplinary approach can complement the singularly
difficult and yet necessary task of architects, architectural educators and academics creating their own
educational curriculum. This is both an
age where interdisciplinary work is accepted but when the specialist and
parochial interest are sought for short term
gains. It is the task of makers
of metaphors to look beyond their venues, context and socio/political
context for the "good" of the advancement of architecture
globally, their society and for the careers of the student body.
To support
an interdisciplinary approach our generation realizes that for every
professional decision we make their are social, psychological, political,
legal, economic, environmental, cultural, and artistic repercussions. Like the droplets in a pool of water each
decision has a ripple effect where the sum of all ripples eventually culminate
in waves. With an eye toward enhancing
architectural specialist's work and re-inventing their own curriculum is this
monograph dedicated. Certainly not to
provide every answer to the many variables, but to suggest to learned men that
their are others to help and assist.
That while
architecture is a very specialized profession, teaching it is in a family of
philosophies, theories, curriculum, courses, and methodologies. That there are very palatable works available
for assimilation into this creative goal.
So this article presents these to make the strange familiar and talk
about architectural education's other terms.
The Metametaphor of Architectural Education
By Barie Fez-Barringten
Abstract
Twenty-first
century education of architects is further challenged by new markets, users and
contractual situations and whole countries and civilizations which here-to-fore
had little or no need for professional architectural services as practiced in
already industrialized and developed nations.
Further to
this is the impact of a long lasting world-wide recession and slowed economies
which has produced fewer employment opportunities, and with it pessimistic
prospects for graduating architects.
Students today need even more care and concern to better prepare them
for these "creative" opportunities.
This
monograph embraces some of the best minds "education"
has known for guidance and direction.
Our new generation of architectural educational planners will need
perspective, theme, direction and purpose with which to discuss the many
details of programs and curriculums.
This monograph is particularly grateful to Max Wingo's 1974 work on the
"Philosophies of education : an introduction" from the
University of Michigan; Paul Nash's 1968 work on "Models of Man",
Ozman and Craver's 1981 work "Philosophical Foundations of Education"
Joseph P. Congemi's 1977: "Higher education and the development of
self‑actualizing personalities; Reginald D.Archambault's 1965 work:
"Philosophical analysis and education; Mehdi: Nakosteen;s
1965 work on "The history and philosophy of education; Solon
T. Kimball's 1974 work on "Culture and the education process";
Murray G.Ross's 1976 "The University"; Brian V.Hill's
1973: "Education and the endangered Individual"
and other works by Paul Weiss, William J. Gordon, and George Dodds.
This
monograph largely depends upon quotes and paraphrases from their reviews of
John Dewey, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Alfred North
Whitehead, Brian F. Skinner, R.S. Peters, Walter Kaufman, P.H. Hirst, John
Wilson, George Berkley, Martin Buber, Emil Brunner, Soren Kiekegard, Frederick
Froebel, L.Joughin, , and their references to Saint Thomas, Aristotle and
Plato. The vocabulary they provide will
prove valuable to articulate applicable approaches.
There are
two matrix figures which summarize the basic positions of educational
philosophies and the structure of the university related to the
cognitive function.
1"Metametaphors" reveals
that by including a variety of philosophies, ideas, concepts, 2 pedagogues,
issues and concerns to the higher education of architects interactive and
combinative qualities can be synthesized in a single cognate. We can see one thread running throughout
history relevant to the architect we want to educate.
Additionally,
architects and educators who are thrust into the precarious position of having
to design, plan and generally emote architectural curriculums usually carry out
this charge in an isolated atmosphere.
It is the intention of this monograph to promote metaphor's
role in looking beyond one's own context to profit by anthers and with the
attitude that an interdisciplinary approach can complement the singularly
difficult and yet necessary task of architects, architectural educators and academics creating their own
educational curriculum. This is both an
age where interdisciplinary work is accepted but when the specialist and
parochial interest are sought for short term
gains. It is the task of makers
of metaphors to look beyond their venues, context and socio/political
context for the "good" of the advancement of
architecture globally, their society and for the careers of the student body.
To support
an interdisciplinary approach our generation realizes that for every
professional decision we make their are social, psychological, political,
legal, economic, environmental, cultural, and artistic repercussions. Like the droplets in a pool of water each
decision has a ripple effect where the sum of all ripples eventually culminate
in waves. With an eye toward enhancing
architectural specialist's work and re-inventing their own curriculum is this
monograph dedicated. Certainly not to
provide every answer to the many variables, but to suggest to learned men that
their are others to help and assist.
That while
architecture is a very specialized profession, teaching it is in a family of
philosophies, theories, curriculum, courses, and methodologies. That there are very palatable works available
for assimilation into this creative goal.
So this article presents these to make the strange familiar and talk
about architectural education's other terms.
The Metametaphor of Architectural Education
The education of
an architect may be enhanced by the use of metametaphor. Architects are not born they are made. They become.
They change from what they were to another. What they are naturally stays the same while
something is added to what they are.
It requires an
acknowledgement of an emptiness in what already is, along with a wish to leave
(or superimpose upon) that general person behind (subordinated) for yet another
which is potentially within (with already existing talents, aptitudes,
etc). The education of an architect is
more than a method or curriculum of courses for (superficial) knowledge. It is a process for 3 birthing a specific dimension of a
person. Knowledge provides the "elevé" architect with context,
goals and a scenario.
But none of the
knowledge nor new information would be personalized without a strong desire for
a change in life from previous behavior. This is the key to receptivity and to
the beginning of a basis to establish goals.
Goals to fill what is acknowledged to be empty and aimless. But not just replacing one for another set of
goals. But goals which are directed at
being "the" architect. But why would a person who is in one
circumstance want to add onto his life additional burdens, responsibility and
accountability for architecture? The
person must believe that there is potentially something that can fill him which
he or she can serve to others, and that he or she can be equipped to care for
the health, safety and welfare of the public. Before we can explain the use of metaphors in the education of architects
and how metaphors may help in solving
problems, creating design solutions or learning new information we must first
begin at the root of what makes an architect and why a person would want to
embark upon this effort.
The Metametaphor Of Architectural Education
In this
explanation is yet another and most useful application of the metaphor and the one which will be the subject
of this monograph. The use of the
theorem of metametaphors as a tool to
define, make and shape the identity of the architect. It is this metaphor upon which all else hinges. The metaphor
which relates a pre-student's potential receptivity to various trades,
professions, arts, etc. including a decision to become an architect. It is not enough to be curious, but to
sustain the search one must be 4 perennially
hungry and find in architecture that context and domain of life's experience
which channels growth. It is the media
by which one's growth can take place and the context by which one can be raised
and made active. It is the
quintessential decision that dominates and then permeates all other aspects of life.
The decision to become an architect is the essence of one's career as a
living human being and it permeates everything else one does and says. It becomes the eyes though which one sees and
the mission through which one serves. It
is a calling and a commitment. It is not
casual but all-consuming and vibrant. One can experience the built environment
in basic ways and through that experience identify a self that seeks more after
experience. Additionally, such
experiences could also fill emotional, social or sensual needs. There may be unanswered question, on just a
sequence of physically sensible events. Becoming must involve a goal of what
one wants to be and this is why the metametaphoric
phenomena begins at the very initial stages of being. What does the 5phenomenon of metametaphors have to do with 6
becoming an architect. The metaphor is an instrument of
transformation.
The Metametaphor Of Architectural Education
As we experience its' characteristics as a
model, ideal, role and identity we adapt these characteristics as our own. They became personal through both catharsis and direct participation. From these we both become and know. We are aware of our change and gain
confidence in our new identity. It is
based not just upon our ideas, intentions or fantasy but on intimate first hand knowledge, skill and
use. We directly perceive an architectural reality. It was there before, but we did not perceive
it with intensity, completeness, comprehensiveness and depth. We not only know, but we know that we
know. It is a high level of cognition
based on recognition because of direct contact which convinces us to discern
its' truth.
(Wingo,
G.M., pg.24)")Education always takes place within a certain
constellation of cultural conditions" and therefore it cannot be only
studied as a set of universal and independent 1phenomena. Some set of
relations among education, politics, and social institutions is inevitable and
cannot be ignored in any useful analysis. Yet it is our catharsis (elimination of natural emotions by bringing it to
consciousness and affording its' expression) of all but architecture, while
including them in our development as a person in other roles which is part of
becoming an architect. There is an
inbred tensional relationship between the studies of the humanities in one
direction and engineering toward the other where both are incorporated into
architecture.
Metaphor:
Metaphors help us to be better students, educators, teachers,
administrators, faculty and professors.
It is the mutual basis upon which our natural collective 7 vision is based. We both differ and agree on just about
everything at one or another level.
The Metametaphor Of Architectural Education
Architectural metaphors incorporate the
past, history, laws, ordinances, science, art humanities, and architects along
with their compositions. It is educators
who experience, select and serve components of the metaphor for the students to 8assimilate. The two are in metaphor : the originators and the receivers (the teachers and
students). The students look to
educators, not only for information but for selecting the topics, scope and
context of the information. The student
is from an ordinary natural, social, paternal and psychologically integrated
context. In some way he or she desires
to be separated from that context. The
student participates in the Hegelian
process of change in which the student's concept of life (or its realization)
passes over, is preserved and fulfilled by its contradictions through the
9 stages of: ideas. This is what students brings to architectural
education : their thesis in the
natural which must then be superseded and recast as an anti-thesis. This experience
then produces the synthesis of his or
her new identity as an architect.
1.
thesis
2.
anti-thesis
3. syn
thesis
The
metaphor juxtaposes opposed and
contradictory ideas, seeking to resolve their conflict through an experience.(Nash,
P.) The man or woman who "knows"
can teach and therefore artists can teach whereas men or women of mere
experience cannot. The perceptions we have of our experiences
became the metaphor students can
perceive. Teaching therefore is
inherently metaphoric, being that
which can be learned by one from another.
Itself is a bridge which transforms and enlightens. It is a welcome "friend-making" phenomena.
Education and metaphor can be both nouns and
verbs. As nouns they are products and as verbs they are process.
They both, like music, link two elements of a composition. But each has its own known context: education
has schools, metaphors have
literature.
It is in the metamorphic form of the metaphor do we find parallels between
education and architecture. When we look
at commonalities of ideas and not the natural
differences of technique, means and methods.
Architects are perennial and inherently educators. It is a dimension in their relationship of
service as surrogate-agent to a client.
Architects compose metaphors
from observing clients needs into what is called "programs". These compositions (first program, then
designs, finally contract documents) needs to be approved and accepted before a
contractor can carry out "the
work" for the owner. The
graphic, oral, written and three-dimensional presentation is designed to show
the client how his needs are met by the architect's design.
This presentation must persuade or condition the
client to feel and believe that he or she can accept the architect's metaphor as desirable. To do this the architect's presentation must
communicate information about the clients needs, necessities, wishes, desires,
likes, preferences, inclinations,
conveniences, welfare and interest. The
client must trust the composition.
The metaphor must talk about the
architecture in terms of the client. The
10strange must be made familiar. The student architect learns also
how to use metaphors to make metaphors in order to profess about his metaphors. Metaphor
involves two apparently unrelated
phenomenon and can be inclusive to two seemingly desperate views of order and
control of the universe around us.(Dewey,J)
That "realism" and "idealism"
is neither totally in the mind nor
totally objective and external, but that human reality is composed of both individuality and environment. It is not a one way but reciprocal movement. Experience is both "of" and "in"
nature. ( Dewey, J. (1859 - 1952)., "Nature consists of stones, plants, diseases, social conditions,
enjoyments and sufferings".
Dewey held that
genuine thought begins with a "problematic
situation", a block or hitch to the ongoing stream of experience. In encountering these blocks, consciousness
is brought to focus, and one is made more actively aware of the situation. It is in dealing with these real problems,
Dewey, argued that the creative intelligence is capable of development. Dewey was greatly influenced by Georg Wilhelm
Friedrick Hegel (1770 - 1831) not for his speculative ultimates but for ( Dewey, J. (1859 - 1952).,pg.90)his
observations about the "growing,
developing, dynamic nature of life".
He was additionally influenced by ( Dewey, J. (1859 - 1952).,pg.91)Charles
Sanders Pierce (1839-1914) for his "practical
consequences of ideas".
Metaphor:
1. is composed of at least one alien and
one familiar element;
2. talks about one element in terms of the
other;
3. makes the strange familiar;
4. has elements that are apparently
unrelated;
5. is a mechanism of change and
transformation;
6. has an essence common to both;
7. has reciprocal components which affect
each other;
8. is identifiable and provides us with
identity;
9. is experienced first by its' composer;
10 exudes;
11. contains a message;
12. communicates over time, space and
context; and,
13. is limited and specific
The role of Philosophy:
(Archambault, R.D pg.53-55)"The
philosopher, as philosopher, is no more concerned with the utterance of
educational aims than he is with the purely technical problem of teaching
purblind children to read". If the
philosopher has a role in education it is with aporia (difficult) kind of problems which cannot be met by any of
the rules appropriate to the special sciences.
It is the solution which can be demonstrated by a lessening (lusis) of the difficulty where a useful
service has been done.
"Analysis
might well lead to the erasure of a systematically confusing vocabulary in
educational theory". (Griffiths, A. P. pg.189)In order to
consider issues pertaining to the "value"
of an activity rather than its' "mean"
we ask "meta" questions
about the logic, epistemological status, and justification of value judgements. We look to and beyond the 11archetype metaphor (or its literary application) to its' wider application to
all the arts including architecture.
We also can
analyze education itself as an art and see in it our expanded scope to apply metaphor's characteristics to both
enhance our analysis and truly review the two parallel artistic professions of
architecture and education.
We can by the
"meta" approach, the metaphoric analogies and reciprocities
between the two. (Griffiths, A. P. pg.196)Even indoctrinating
qualified architects into the roles of educators in a university requires help
not merely instruction. "They
possess reciprocity in the highest
degree". This is just as true for
students. Both are students in this adaptation. Both will have to have the aprior knowledge
refuted as they challenge the context, the field of education, etc. Ultimately the architectural student will be
a kind of educator.
(Archambault,
R.D., pg.15)"Doing" philosophy involves analyzing and
clarifying concepts and the language in
which ideas are expressed. It is
possible that students may be both studying
what philosophers have said and doing
philosophy. (Wingo, G. M., pg.18)We
can 1deduce from general (basic) ideas certain principles for
education. "Educational philosophy as deduction from philosophical premises". The metaphor
is the vehicle which conveys from one to another context. We understand commonalities and differences
by perceiving the terms, structure, material, operation, components, elements,
parts and interactions within the metaphor.
(Wingo, G. M., pg.355)Philosophers
can contribute to the reconstruction of
education by applying the techniques of analysis of language to current
educational discourse. Metametaphor is one approach to such an analysis
being itself in the context of language and communication
The educator's metaphor operates between (
Ozman, H.A. and Craver, S.M)., ideas and practical activity. The two are reciprocal, good ideas can change
into good practices and good practices can transform bad ideas to good
ones. In metaphor they transform oneanother.
Metametaphors
and philosophy in general provide an (Ozman, H.A., and Craver, S.M)
understanding of thinking processes and the nature of ideas, the language we
use to describe education and how these may interact with practical
affairs. For the educator, philosophy is
not simply a professional tool but a way of improving the quality of life
because it helps us gain a wider and deeper perspective on human existence and
the world around us". Culturing:
(Kimball, S.T.) Values and value
formation are a consequence of the activities of individuals within a social
setting. The meanings of things, activities and relationships are variable,
arise out of participation, and affirmed in successive and repetitive
events. Canons of discrimination are a
way to evaluate and order experience. They govern the responses of individuals
to their experience. They govern the
responses of individuals to their experience. The individual not only identifies
the items that came into his sensory and cognatic orbit but responds to them in
a predictable fashion, based upon his criteria of evaluation. He or she has been taught how to think, act,
and feel and to do so differentially because of the situational nature of
learning. Each culture, tradition and
heritage has its own set of social processes and these are incorporated into
their metaphors. The very fact that infants and growing
children require care is evidence that man is receptive to culturing.
The faculty, facility, program, and
curriculum all together are the elements of the metaphor.
Becoming an Architect:
(Heidegger, M.
(1889‑1976) 158)Heidegger's major category of investigation was
"being", where his main
starting point was what he called "being‑in‑the‑world,
or lived experience at the individual‑environment (world) level. The individual existent is "Dasein". While Heidegger's intent and purpose is to
investigate "being", his
analysis largely rests on the individual constructing his own world of
meaning. Therefore, we can see that the student
can become an architect via the experience of elements of his environment. "The student" metaphors into a product who can be read.
What
we read is that dimension of the individual that has become, his or her "being": the metaphor. That common essence to the elements and his
trials. For Heidegger this is the "Umwelt" (the surrounding
environment). Not only the objective
extent world, but the one which has been 1personalized. Thus the
"metaphor experience" conditions the architect, culturing and
transforming him or her to "be" the essence of what he or she
experienced. It is a mimeses and metamorphosis. It is metametaphor
of becoming an architect out of all the kaos of what the individual otherwise
would be. The metaphor translates, transforms and changes. But for this to take place the individual
becomes aware of him or herself (knows, and knows that he or she knows) as a
distinct and subjective existent ("eigenwelt"). "I must decide, for this life is mine
and no one else's". "To be authentic and affirm that "I am",
an individual must face the truth as he
is able to discover it, live life in the face of death, and construct his
meaning as a human by committing himself to authenticity". This condition lies at the heart of an
individual's crises of identity, and with this acknowledgement the basis upon
which he or she can begin to experience the environment.
Art can be the
experience by which individuals meet this crisis and the metaphor is the birth of that identity. This is
when the individual becomes the architect. consciousness (essence common to
both) after the every- day world (elements in the metaphor) has been discounted.
This leaves certain essential features of who we are. This is what we have become.
Ultimately
the student must add to his or her
role as user, audience, beneficiary, consumer and operator to the student's new
dimension as creator, composer, maker and architect. He or she does not stop being sibling,
parent, spouse, citizen, etc. but 12 transcends these in favor of taking responsibility for the
"architectural" time and place.
It is the student's instinctive use of metaphors where the student, "the familiar", juxtaposes him or herself with "the alien" (architectural
profession) to begin the metaphoric
process of 13 transformation. Architecture is the essence common to
both. The "extent" in the
architecture and the potential in the student.
Both are apparently unrelated by different times, places, contexts and
experiences. The student is the
attentive systematic observer of what architecture exudes. In this role he or she subordinates other roles to the role of architect. It is more than that; those other roles must
also be transformed by the predominance of the potential of architecture in
them. For most this experience is so
profound and exemplary that its strength and depth prevails over other
dimensions of a student's life: his or her character and personality. It does so because this experience is more
well thought out and perceived.
The elevé (the one being elevated) will
"carry‑over" themes and
concepts from architecture in his or her role as sibling, parent, etc. He or she will also look to see the ways in
which architecture's essences can modify and enlarge his or her roles in other
contexts. Because the content and
process of what the student is learning he or she learns subjectively and not
objectively. Architecture is recreating
itself again a new in him or her.
In so far as he or
she permits he or she becomes the
architect of his or her 14dreams.
Without a rekindling of the immediacy, zeal and primacy of the
architectural burden societies may ultimately have no architecture, but 15
paradigms of other professions which do take personal responsibility. Immanual Kant says (Kant, I. (1724‑1804)(Nature
and objective reality, is a causal continuum, a world connected in space and
time with its' own internal order". The "subjective mind cannot
perceive this order in itself or in totality for when the subjective mind is
conscious of something, it is not the thing‑in‑itself (das Ding an sich). The mind is conscious of the experience of
the phenomenon of the thing‑in‑itself.
The thing‑in‑itself is the noumenon". Each experience of a thing (phenomenon) is
one small additional piece of knowledge
about the total thing (noumenon). Thus,
all we know is the content of experience.
When we go beyond this, we have entered into the rationalist argument,
into speculation and the ultimate or noumenal reality of things‑in‑themselves,
or else we have become engaged in moral and ethical considerations".
Therefore,
in Kants terms we can only become architects through perceived and understood
experience which accumulates into an ethereal composite (metaphor) which on its own is our reality. It is all we know. (Wingo, G.M pg. 337)This
kind of knowing versus the principle that ideas are innate in the
individual. That we are already
architects, brain surgeons, astronauts, etc.
Ideas exist in the soul, but to be known they require being brought into
consciousness is the assumption of Socrates'.
Knowing is therefore a process of recollection in which the direct
transmission of information can play no
part at all. Knowing is the apprehension
of what is already in the soul, and what is in the soul is abstractions.
We
communicate that which the other person already knows. Communication is a kind of affirmation and
awakening.
It is in this
domain that best utilizes extent metaphors
which speaks about one thing in terms of another, reifies and translates the strange to the familiar. (Gordon, W.J., )Most adults have lost the
spontaneous capacity to use metaphorical
forms ‑ a capacity which all children exhibit before they develop their
analytic faculties. The educational
process should foster rather than suppress the use of metaphor. It is in this way
that students apply what is learned from classes in history, structures and
drafting to the design studio.
In
another way we can explain that the 16 education of an architect is in fact the making of a 17 metaphor.
But what is that metaphor when
it is a person? We know that the
physical nature is the same but are there another (a surrogate) to suggest a
likeness between them. An object,
activity, or idea treated as a metaphor.
Becoming
experience:
We
will find metaphor's important
contributions to architectural education in its' characteristics as a model,
ideal, 19mimesis, goal,
emblem, sign, role, identity, and vehicle.
(Dodds, G.) The student's urge is toward both a
19mimesis (transformation
that reveals an ideal) of imitation
and speculation. On one hand the student looks to recreate and
internalize external experience and knowledge held by others, while on the
other hand he or she is being formed into a condition where he too will be a
source of knowledge and information.
In this way
learning architecture is a profoundly 20heuristic
act requiring a keen sense of perception fostered by receptivity and
sensitivity. The student must first be in touch with him or herself and his or
her own feelings, emotions and thoughts.
He or she must have a dialogue with him or herself in order to 21read what is revealed through his or her
own efforts. Additionally, the student must perceive the metaphors of the lives of other architects; what they think, their
goals, theories, concepts and what conditioned their professional life.
Paralleling this,
the student must also perceive architectural works related to specific
architects, contexts (time, place, situation, etc) and theories. The student must see works completed in the
past and present and those being prepared for the future. The student must also be exposed to issues
and theories of architecture and related fields to develop a perceptual
framework into which to include his or her experiences and upon which to carry
out his or her own work. If, as we have seen that architectural experiences yield architectural knowing
then one of architectural educator's concerns must he to best define
architectural experiences. It is also in
this realm that differences and ambiguities exist. These differences are partly exacerbated by
an increasingly academically oriented, but professionally inexperienced faculty
which focus on state-of-the art research and educational processes.
It is not the
intention of this statement to devaluate these concerns but to rather suggest
that by what metaphors are exhibited
before students so they become. Further to this crisis of defining
architectural experience is the opposite, where practitioners have genuinely
different and opposing views of professional educational needs and
necessities. Yearly, conferences and
seminars try to evaluate professional business trends, new client types, new
client consultant-contractor relationships, new building types and from these
inference what should be the architect's revised and legitimate role. Architects are collectively concerned so as
to be able to evaluate altering conventional practice, reorient personal requirements,
re-train personal, re-direct marketing efforts, modify contractual forms,
reevaluate expensive errors and omissions insurance, re-locate or set up
branches in new areas and penetrate into new areas of opportunity or prevent
others from taking away what they perceive should be their architectural
business.
While educators
discuss metametaphors in academic
settings, practitioners are experiencing architectural creation and its'
modifications.
These
modifications and variations are the additional elements which architectural
educational planners can consider in analyzing new curriculums. Consideration may result in some major
structural changes to one extreme to merely adding some components into the
existing curriculum. Their are educators
who would argue against this kind of relevance and response advocating that the
academy is there to set standards and itself define the profession. In either case the resulting metaphors are based on decisions about
experience and its' utilization.
(Cargem,
J.P pg.xii) The self‑actualizing student internalizes his or her
knowledge and forms his or her own synthesis into general principles which can
be recalled after the facts are forgotten.
To quote (Whitehead, A.N) Whitehead
says Cargem, "the essential course of reasoning is to generalize what is
particular, and then do particularize what is general. Without generality there is no reasoning,
without concreteness there is no importance".
The architect
"is in" the metaphor he or
she creates, but as its' creator, is not him or herself the metaphor. It is all of him or her that ever
experienced, learned, knew and became the architect. All the rest is excluded. The metaphor
and the architect have a reciprocal relationship. The metaphor
on the other hand is in the architect and exists because it was first known by
the architect as a result of his or her experience with the common essence and
the apparently unrelated elements.
Perceiving the metaphor is
knowing the architect while creating the metaphor
is knowing the user.
(Dewey,J)Thus, the
artist engages in his work until he achieves the desired end. The artist is not only the creator but also
the perceiver. "However, Dewey did
not believe that art and aesthetic experiences are to be left only to the
professional artist. Everyone (including
architects and users) is capable of achieving and enjoying aesthetic
experiences provided that creative
intelligence is developed through education.
Therefore, art
(nor architecture) need not be the possession of the few but available to
everyone and can be applied to the ordinary activities of life". (Dewey, J. (1859-1952), Dewey believed that the truly aesthetic experience is one where the
person is unified with his activity. It
is an experience that is so engaging and fulfilling that there is no conscious
distinction of self and object in it; the two are so fully integrated that such
distinctions are not needed. In short,
an aesthetic experience is one in which the contributions of both the
individual and the environment,or the internal and the external are in harmony:
the "consummatory experience";
the experience that provides unity and completeness. "This
is human experience at its highest".
This is wherein the student becomes
an architect by experiencing all the thoughts about being an architect.
This "consummatory experience" is the metaphor wherein unity and completion
interact. This is why, like the Greeks,
thought Dewey, all can project art into all human activities. This
is why education is also an art. Why it
too is the making of metaphors and is
metaphoric. (Skinner, B.F. (1904 ‑
1992 ) pg.197)The externalized metaphor
and the experience to create the metaphor
are 22symbiotic. When we really came to know it (personal
awareness), what we know will not be essentially
different from external objects. Content will be knowledge of the behavior and
contingencies of reinforcements. We are
a complex system behaving in lawful observable ways. We are both controller and controlled. We are our own makers. Our identity evolves through a cultural
process that we have largely created.
Our environment is contrived or chosen and consists of significant
contingencies of reinforcement (of status, identity and positioning metaphors) that makes us human. "In this respect we may say that we are
our own makers, and while we are doing the making, we are being made or we are
in the making".
Mind:
(Peters,
B.S) pg.102)No person is born
with a mind; for the development of mind marks a series of individual and
societal achievements. It is learned
step by step through a variety of exposures, experiences and initiations into
public traditions enshrined in a public language, which it took our remote
ancestors centuries to develop". (Weiss, P) "In addition to the past of the
individual artist", says Paul Weiss, and the past of the art itself, there
is also the past of society, civilization and culture. The arts of today are in part a function of
what we have gone through and of what the past has been". The creative aspect
of the metaphor is its' dynamism which
relates the past to the present.
A metaphor may bring the past forward
directly, or it may distort or negate it, but it is always a usage, a
manipulation, of what has gone before in terms of the present. (Hirst, P.H)., A
person is more than pure mind, yet mind is his or her essential distinguishing
characteristic, and it in terms of knowledge that his or her whole life is
rightly directed. "From the knowledge of mere particulars to that of pure being, all knowledge has its' place in a
comprehensive and harmonious scheme, the pattern of which is formed is
knowledge is developed in apprehending reality in its' many different
manifestations". Society desires the mind of the individual to be
developed around skills, talents, character, etc. Deciding for the knowledge of architecture
sets ones path toward that aspect of all possible reality. The relevance of discussing this is to
reinstate this mutual commitment back into places of higher education.
(Wilson, J) The student has continually to be
referred back to his or her own experience, and has to move back and forth from
the felt reality of that experience of the unknown skills and knowledge that
will help him or her to make sense of and generalize from it.
For literature,
what the student needs as a human being is, amongst other things, to be able to
feel characters and situations in
literature as real and relevant to himself, and to be able to express himself,
to understand, and to be understood, both orally and on paper : to be able to
write and to be able to talk. The
student experiences his subjective
metaphor and the metaphor of
society. As an architectural student,
between his or her's own experiences of the environment with those of users,
potential clients, public and factors common to all human beings. Factors of proportion, dimension, scale,
color, texture, light volume, mass, solids, voids, form, function, etc. The student's experience with these factors
over a period of "educational time" is the measure by which he or she
became (did become) an architect.
(George B. (1685‑1753)
"All existence is dependent on some mind to know it, and if there are no
minds, then for all intents and purposes nothing would exist unless it is
perceived by the mind of God. There is no existence without perception, but
things may exist in the sense that they are perceived by God. We can only know things as we consciously
conceive them, and when we think of the universe existing before finite minds
can conceive it, we are led to assume the existence of an omnipresent mind
lasting through all time and eternity".
(Nakosteen, M) To the 23idealist,
the mind has an existence of its own independent of the environment but
stimulated by it. It is an existence above the laws of physics and chemistry;
it is a reality above the reality of nature. The mind is governed by its' own
laws, lives its' own life in accordance with these laws, and expresses itself
in aesthetic, religious, mystical, speculation and social channels being always
guided by its' own principles, using the environment as a tool or channel of
expression rather than its' source. It
is this very mind which the student architect wishes "metaphored" from one to another model. He or she has perceived
the "architectural mind" and wants to change his or her mind from
its' general state to the architectural.
The brain, the
student knows, is the instrument of the mind and not its' generator. It is its' servant and not its' master. It is its' medium and not its' essence. The mind has retrospective powers ‑ it can
look within. It has prospective powers ‑
it can look ahead. It has aesthetic
powers ‑ it can recreate itself in the beautiful. It has the synaptic ability to make the
strange familiar and synapse. It lives
in its' ability to convert a meaningless external world into a meaningful
internal world connected and synthesized. To the idealistic educator,
the mind generates of itself and within
itself.
The educator tries
to awaken his or her student's minds by inspiring them through his or her's
personality and handling of classroom activities. It is to cause the contact of one mind with
another leading to discovery, analysis and synthesis; to the realization of the
powers of the mind through creative efforts; to the development of
understanding and appreciation, to
growth and maturity, to intellectual development and spiritual experience. Particularly for architectural education
emphases is on the laws of learning than the things learned. Architects make metaphors and what ever is learned must awaken this ability. Interest is the very essence of good
education. Since people develop from
within, it is not what we do for and to the student, but what the student does
for and to him or herself that is of paramount importance. Interest is a transcendental power as genuinely
a part of humanity as is humanity itself.
The student exudes metaphors
in a free, purposeful atmosphere where he achieves inner satisfaction. Architectural educational planners therefore,
must assume the high ground of ideas and concepts by which to plan curriculums
and formulate educational policy.
To
Make the Man:
( J.V. McGlynn, Du Magistro, Deveritate) pg.249)The purpose of education
is "to make a man or a woman",
and the means by which this is done is the exercise of the individuals own
powers. The art of teaching, therefore
is the art of stimulating and directing the activity of these powers so that
they are developed and perfected. Metaphor is that dimension of
"man" which is "made"
and the architect is that kind of "man" the student wants to be. Educators don't make a man or woman. This is a result of nature's biological
functions but we know the metaphor to
be about a different kind of 1making.
( J.V. McGlynn, Du Magistro, Deveritate) pg.250)The art of teaching, therefore,
is the process of converting the natural powers
of reason from potential to
actuality. According to Saint Thomas the
potency of the human intellect is of
the same kind as the power of the body to heal itself; that is, knowledge
exists in the learner in the sense of active potentiality. If this were not true, people would not be
able to gain knowledge for themselves without the help of another person. Men can
gain knowledge for themselves, through discovery
without the help of another though a process of natural reason".
The other way of
learning is through the process of instruction. Both involve the teacher. Both are metaphoric and use metaphors. When we uncover
the hidden elements of our experience we expose sight of our efforts. Student architects discover their talents and the results of study. This happens from instruction by others or
from the experience of analysis, study, experimentation, trial, error,
drafting, calculations, etc. When
students are taught to be architects
they are guided to turn to themselves
and external standards through exercises which engraft the metaphor of "architect".
If architectural education today has any one major negative it is to
know the man which is to be made. Is it
the man of yesterday, today or tomorrow.?
What are the
specifics of tomorrow which would best employ the graduating architects and
what are the other general things by which he could adopt to the unknowns. Therefore, its choosing the components of the
metaphoric antecedents of any one
vector which present the problem. Its
also being relevant to graduation which can also motivate, encourage and endue
students with a sense of commitment. (Congemi, J.P) pg.xiii)1Self‑actualization
is concerned with "man's" concept of reality, truth and values. (Frechtman, B., pg.321)"Man"
is whatever he or she conceives themselves to be, and whatever they may become is whatever they "will"
themselves to become". Said Satre,
"Man" is nothing else but what he or she makes of him or
herself. Such is
the first principle of existentialism.
Man or woman is both free and responsible for what he or she chooses
to become.
The external metaphors which surround any potential
student engender a call for a commitment to that part of the whole of all
society to which he or she will be accountable. It must match with his or her experience and
potential capacity, capability and aptitude to accept this burden. Once chosen and qualified for the task he or
she can then begin to change, transform and transfer from his or her general to
specific identity. This presumes that
man or woman is in possession of his or her identity and that he or she has
character and personality apart from his or her professional state of mind. (K.
Marks and F. Engels) The production of ideas, conceptions, and consciousness is
at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material
intercourse of persons : the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, and the mental state of
persons appear at this stage as the direct efflux (passage) of their material
behavior. Persons are the producers of
their conceptions and ideas. Real,
active persons are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces
and of the intercourse corresponding to these up to its' furthest forms.
Consciousness can
never be anything else than conscious existence and this existence is their
actual life‑process. It is a metaphor formed, not from a common
essence, but from a collection of differences which have a common essence. Architect's educational curriculum and
teaching methodologies that respond to this reality will let a student bring
his or her cultural and social experience to bear upon his or her learning of
architecture.
(Brunner, E) Man possesses the
freedom to make choices where it is in fact in choosing that he lives. (Kaufman, W) "Man" is differentiated
from other entities because he or she knows that he or she exists; indeed he or she knows that he or she
knows he or she exists".... "Self is a "desired, constituted
relation" arising from the interaction of body and spirit".
(Whitehead, A.N) Cognition
is the emergence into some measure of "individualized reality" of the
general substratum of activity, poising before itself possibility, actuality
and purpose. An architectural student
will promote realities of architectural identity and therefore need ways in
which this can be expressed. (Buber, M) pg.442)The perception of a
human being as a unique whole unity
is opposed to an analyzed, reduced and abstracted being. Derivations tend to contract the manifold
person, supposing it can grasp what a man or woman has become into a general
concept. The personal life is leveled
down in favor of brevity and external control. The metaphor which can "imagine
the real" is truly the way in which one can be stirred by
another. Not by less but more
detail. "Man" in all his or
her concreteness. To group all people's
perceptions must also include their spirit.
The education of an architect is to recognize the fullness of the
student and what must be brought from one to another state of development. Not just a part but the whole person. The metaphor
of the curriculum must permit a teacher to "bring‑out" the compassion, spirit and empathy of a
student. Both must experience the
content of knowledge and expose it through 26"techne".
(Buber, M) Pg
454)It demands of the educator reactions which cannot be prepared
beforehand. It demands nothing of what
is past. It demands presence and
responsibility; it demands 24"personage". Buber calls it great character when one, who
by his actions and attitudes, satisfies the claim of situations out of a deep
readiness to respond with his or her whole life, and in such a way that the sum
of his or her actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his
or her being in its willingness to
accept responsibility. As his or her being is unity, the unity of accepted responsibility, his or her
active life, too, coheres into unity.
This is the metametaphor of
becoming an architect.
The metamorphosis from person to student,
student to architect, architect to teacher and teacher to student. Each reifies its' elements and transforms the
person at each role. The being becomes
and makes his or her experience concrete.
The
metaphor as an Ideal: In another way architects become professionals by conforming to the technical and ethical
standards of architecture. (Kant I. (1724‑1804), The
child", says Kant, "should learn to act according to 25"maxims", the reasonableness of
which he is able to see for himself". 25"Maxims" ought to originate in the human being as
such". "Character consists in
readiness to act in accordance with "25maxims".
(Nakosteen, M.)"Metaphors and similes were often
employed by Jesus in picturesque and poetic expressions of moral ideals and
religious concepts. Sometimes these were
used in the body of a parable as a figure of speech, but one may find them
usually in his formal talks with crowds".
(Nakosteen) According to Kant
"apriori" knowledge is totally independent of experience and cannot
be known by "man". If we had
not experienced extension between objects or duration from event to event, we
could never have arrived at a concept of time and space, no matter how
universal these concepts appear to us in maturity.
Yet knowledge must
be the basis for metaphor and
synapse. We can make the unexperienced
which is unknown, known because the unknown has property (ies) of the known
(and vice versa). It is reasonable, yet
can be beyond reason when perceived.
Classroom teaching must constantly give common- sensical familiar
examples for exotic unfamiliar new behavior. (Wilson, J) All these human skills
(e.g. research, perception, discernment, etc) are, in a sense, techniques for
becoming aware of the human self; and communication is essential because it is
each individual student's own self to which he or she must become aware.
Becoming the metaphor of the architect involves 26technique which in turn reveals
perceptions of our experience in a form which can both first communicate to the
composer and then to others. (users,
audience, readers, etc.) (Dewey,
J) John Dewey believed that the image
is the great instrument of instruction.
What a child gets out of any subject presented to him or her is simply
the images which he or she himself forms
with regard to it. Not : "one
picture is worth a thousand words".
The student is the one who creates the metaphor composed of exercises of the elements of the learning
experience. Dewey believed that the work
of instruction would be facilitated if more time were spent in seeing to it
that the child was forming proper images.
Students of architecture reify their concepts into concrete images. Architectural students make their own
pictures. Thus can the information being
assimilated be seen and understood. It
is how both the student and the architect experience the information, form metaphors, and reveal the architecture.
Education is a personal experience:
27Existentialists
assert that a good education would encourage
individuals to ask such questions as, who am I? Where am I going? Why am I here? (Ozman, H.A., and Craver,
S.M).,
It is the Aristotelian notion that we can
understand our place in the universe (a function of the metaphor), and this understanding is a result of sharpening our
powers of intellect through the use of metaphors,
reason and observation. But which metaphors to choose and what to observe
and reason. This is where choice and
even casual conditioning enters as accident or rationally controlled
destiny. Whichever it is, the individual
recognizes his need, experience and commits himself to a path of "feeding" to became an
architect. This is a metametaphor process. (3.0, (Ozman, H. A and Craver, S.
M pg.168)"The first step in any education, then, is to
understand ourselves".
(Ozman, H. A and
Craver, S. M pg.169)"Existentialists argue that education
should promote a sense of involvement in life though action. They believe that persons should be encouraged to be committed and take
stands even through the rational basis of any stand is always incomplete. They believe more in deeds than
words". "Through experience man learns" perhaps best sums up the
lessons learned from the classics and the basis of the metametaphor-birth of architectural identity. Educators, students, administrators and
faculty share and convey this common experience. It is what is professed and exuded.
The function of education to becoming:
Kiekegard
encouraged (Kierkegard, S.
(1813‑1855)pg.156)the subjective individual who makes his own
choices, eschewing the scientific demand for objective proof. "He believed
that the individual is confronted with the choices in life, that he or she
alone can make and for which he or she must accept complete 28responsibility". (Peters, R.S) pg.97)Plato's
image of education as turning the eye of the soul outwards towards the light
explains that although there are truths to be grasped and standards to be
achieved, which are public objects of desire, he claimed that coercing people
into seeing them or trying to imprint them on wax‑like minds was both
psychologically unsound and morally base.
Objective standards need to be written
into the content of education. The
individual commitment and his or her relationship to the objective civil order
is a part of that special metaphor
which makes up architects, lawyers, governors, etc. Likewise the extent of control by the state,
society or universities of higher education upon the an individual can be
balanced by the individual's own initiative, motivation, receptivity and commitment. The individual and his society are part of a
common context which is the metaphor
they both experience and they wish experienced, replicated and developed. The student of architecture commits him or
herself to do what he or she cannot do for himself: to become an architect.
That which is external to him or her before must now
become internal. (Nakosteen, M) Education, therefore, from
"without" replaces self‑education because Most
men and women left to themselves are incapable of the art of 29happiness. From this point of approach, education
becomes a regulating force and should demand the most engaging duty of the
state. Happiness is not a social
reality. Although it functions in
society, its' realization is centered in
the individual. It is a habit of mind
and the final aim of education and of the state, (even the university). It should be the happiness of the
individual.
If happiness has a
social function it is that through it alone can "man" achieve
individual perfection (virtue, ethical, nature, responsible, etc.). They can become the metaphor which is external to them and by being receptive to it can
allow themselves to be transformed and brought‑over to it. (Kimball, S.T) Ethical ideas came from
experience of things which comes from the study of natural science, mathematics
and social intercourse, which necessitates the study of "man"
including history, language, literature politics, art, economics and science.
What we call
"faculties" such as
imagination, reasoning, memory, etc. are in truth metaphoric formations within the individual caused by presentations
from the social and physical world. The
contact with the world sets off sense
activity which perceives metaphors. Memory is the reproduction of a series of metaphoric precepts previously formed by
sense activity. Imagination is the
rebuilding of picture worlds, metaphors
and hopes in the mind from the metaphoric
material that has been presented to it from the external natural world. The external natural world is the raw material
of imagination and the elements of metaphors.
The metaphor is the 30 essence of education because it is a
transformer, bridge and works by carrying-over things from one to another form,
person or context. Students learn with metaphors about metaphors to make metaphors.
Ultimately they learn how to reproduce
the approach they have experienced. They
then profess and exude this to others.
They are both the metaphor of
their experience and the prototype for 31emulation. (Kimball,
S.T) Our type of civilization needs
persons with the capacity for seeking relationships and dynamics of
systems. This is why the educational
process which cultivates the metaphoric
process does more to prepare its' graduates than teaching
"information" only. It is a
skill and easily adapts to a wide range of conditions. Architects change
clients, building types, contexts, venues, employers, etc. This is not a task that can be done on one's
own and is an appropriate role for higher education. The experience the student
has in the university is usually his first experience in a corporately
organized system and the faculty represents "the other world". The success with which he masters his school
environment‑ in other words, internalizes
its' learnings ‑ foretells, in most cases, the degree of success the student
architect will master in the public adult environment. It may be now the time to revive the
education of architects. To bring back
again these values, goals and ideals which were the vigor and life of education
to be applied specifically to higher education and architectural education in
particular.
We can learn from
art education and educational philosophy.
(Dewey, J. ) pg.110)Article three of Dewey's
pedagogic creed reiterates that education must be conceived as a continuing
reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are
one and the same.
The
Role of the Educator:
At the root of
(Gordon, W.J.J.) synectics : the metaphoric way of knowing is a 1maieutic approach to the
degree of responsibility, control and dynamic between student and teacher. (Skinner, W.F ) pg.2.27) Maieutic practices are one
answer to how much help (or intervention) the teacher should give the student
as he acquires new forms of behavior.
One approach is
that the teacher should wait for the student to respond rather than rush to
tell him or her what he is to do or say.
"The more the teacher
teaches, the less the student learns".
The behavior to which a person has given birth grows, and it may be
guided or trained as a growing plant is trained. Behavior may be "cultivated". The metaphor is particularly at home in
education".," There are many metaphoric
analogies to horticulture. "Kinder garten" is one. This is a place where the child develops
until he reaches maturity with little teaching intervention. Guidance
is a key to many other forms of assisted development such as psychotherapy,
economic growth, governance, etc. Such a metaphor
involves a balance of human relations between student and teacher: between the
degree of receptivity, responsibility, commitment, control, intervention and
guidance. It is a game of
32 "T.A.G.": trust, authority and gguidance played first within and
individual, then with his teacher, then client, users, audience etc. It is the art of making metaphors which we emulate
and exude.
( Froebel, F.), pg.10)The
renowned German educator, Frederick Froebel, founder of the above mentioned
"kindergarten" metaphor (metaphoric analogy) likened the healthy
development of the human organism to the healthy development of young
plants. It is the function of education
to evoke and develop freedom and to induce self‑determination. There is an inner essence and ever-present
identity in all relationships in life.
The individual must be given the opportunity to develop both his
individuality and his or her human nature.
"Man" has potential and this potential must be nurtured
through various stages.
(Wingo, G.M ) pg.60)The role of 33teaching is
essentially the transmission of a body of knowledge and values, accompanied by
certain intellectual skills. The task is
to transmit the essential elements of the cultural heritage. The teacher is the mediator between the historic
accumulation of culture and the generation that must perpetuate that accumulation.
However, from the
standpoint of the individual, the purpose (Wingo, G.M ) pg.53)
of education is to help him or her achieve intellectual discipline. The aims of education is intellectual
training for the individual through rigorous application of the mind to the
historic subject matter. This process,
the 34essentialist maintains,
and only this, is worthy to be called
the purpose of education. The
individual, in a sense becomes the metaphor
of the metaphor by which he or she is
transformed. He and she not only learns about their cultural heritage but
experience being cultured by their heritage and therefore as the beings of what
they have experienced now personally incorporate their education. From their experience with their teacher they
experience the culture. The teacher is
the medium by which this metamorphosis takes place.
The student need
not, according to this doctrine, experience for him or herself the culturing
because he or she already has prior
knowledge of his or her heritage. It is
only to be known and brought out of what the student already knows. (Wingo,
G.M ) pg 60).
This is a conservative view which advocates:
a) Schools should be limited to their
educational function;
b) Not all subjects are worthy to be
taught;
c) Schools should cherish and transmit
certain traditional values and must be neutral; and
d) Schools play a role in society with
traditional relations between the schools and other institutions.
(Kandel, I. L) pg.61)"On
the other hand Issac Kandel, the educational conservative says that the school
is the instrument for maintaining
existing social orders and for helping to build new social orders when the
public has decided on them; but it does not
create them. In the same sense that
society is prior to the individual, the social order is prior to the
school". The book's author adds
that if Kandall had added to this statement "knowledge is prior to the knower", he would have produced the
best "nutshell" definition of essentialism in the English language.
(Ozman, H.A., and
Craver, S.M) pg.74)The key
problem with essentialist doctrine is that people do differ greatly in their
ability to learn abstract material.
Since no body at present knows how to alter significantly the genetic
equipment of individuals, and this narrows the range in learning ability,
schools are full of low or non‑achievers.
This is different in most schools of higher education and particularly
architectural and art education. (Kandel, I.L) pg.81)The
conservative tradition in education emphasizes transmission of facts by the
teacher and absorbed by the pupils. The
student therefore, does not experience the making of the metaphor but the metaphor
itself as an audience, reader or perceptor.
It is highly cognitive and the individual cannot adopt his apriori metaphors to those of the
schools. (Ross, M.P.) Professors:
1. Encourages the free pursuit of learning
in his students,
2. projects best scholarly standards of
architecture,
3. demonstrates respect for the student
and individual,
4. demonstrates respect of the student as
an individual,
5. adheres to his or her proper role as
intellectual guide and counsellor,
6. assures that his evaluation of students
reflects their true merit,
7. respects confidential nature of the
relationship between professor and student,
8. avoids exploitation of students for his
or her private advantage and acknowledges significant assistance from them;
and,
Footnotes:
1Metametametaphor : Meta :
more comprehensive than metaphor as it is applied to literature
but designates a new but related theorem designed to deal critically with the
original metaphor; particularly its application to all the arts,
and especially architecture. A
transcending inclusive vehicle.
2 pedagogy : the art, science, or profession of teaching;
esp : education. leader ; to lead; Agent : teacher, schoolmaster.
3 birth : to bring, forth, to give rise to;
originate.
4 perennialists
and perenialism is a relatively recent term in educational thought, its roots
can be traced back to classical antiquity.
They stress the superiority of mind and matter and promote a cognitive
approach to education - one that stresses thinking, and particularly
philosophical thinking as its primary goal.
There is an affinity with Plato who stressed ideas as the only true
reality.
5 phenomenon : an observable fact; an
aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or nonsensuous
intuition;
6 be + cumam : to come into existence; to
undergo change or development, to appear; originate "to come into ones own": to achieve one's potential.
7 visio, visus : to see: wit imagination,
conceiving: revelation, a manifestation to the senses of something immaterial.
8 assimulare : to make
similar : ad + similare :
simulate (copy, represent, to assume the outward qualities) imitate (mimesis)
assume: can be a sham, counterfeit or feinted pretense.
9 the laws of dialectical materialism.
10 strange : the clients needs, once
familiar, have now been transformed, reified and concretised into another
form. It is this new form which is now
unfamiliar. *"Synectics : The
metaphoric way of knowing" is the title of the book by W.J. Gordon and
"synectics" may now be found in the dictionary. To bring forth (as techne and
education). Metaphors and education are
synectic.
11. archetype
: the original metaphora transfers
and bears by terms carrying one idea in place of another suggesting likeness
and analogy but also transforming. This
is the original pattern or mode : of which all things of the same type are
copies or representations. It is derived
from the collective experience of natural cognitive man.
12 transcendere : to climb
across (trans (across) + scamdere (climb). To rise above or go beyond limits. To triumph over the negative or restrictive
aspects of all roles.
13 . trans (prefix): tra :
across, beyond through, so as to change.
To go on the other side. So as to
change or transfer.
<transliterate>
<translocation>
<transamination> <tranship>.
14 dream : to consider as a possibility. A visionary creation of the imagination,
vision. A strongly desired goal or
purpose. Something that fully satisfies
a wishes : Ideal.
15 para : (beside,
alongside, with) + deiknynai to show:
an example of a conjugation or declension showing a metaphor in all its other forms (inflections, etc.).
16 educere : to
lead forth: "to bring‑out";
to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically by instruction. deduction : deduce : to lead away from.
To infer from a general principle. Infer
: to carry or bring into: bear. To derive as a conclusion from the perception
of the parts and whole of a metaphor.
17 metapherein : metaphora : to transfer, to bear
(experience, carry, suffer) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase
literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of other
changes? Studies have shown that there
are differences in life styles between professionals and non‑professionals and
within professions; differences from one to another. And the differences pertain to being set-apart
from society and committed to 1profess.
18 professes : profiteri : confess: pro(before)
fateri (to acknowledge) to declare
openly; affirm.
19 mimesis :
imitation, mimicry, simulate, copy
20 heuristisch :
to discover; I have found; serving as an aid to learning, discovering, or
problem‑solving by experimental and the trial‑and‑error method. It is exploratory and self‑educating. One learns from one's own experience. It is primary
21 read an : to
advise, reason, calculate; to receive the sense of experience; to learn;
understand; comprehend; interpret our own
performance; decode: (to read the coded information).
22 Symbiosis :
live together: a cooperative relationship between two seemingly dissimilar
elements to each others mutual benefit : mutualism.
23 Idealism claims that the universe is a manifestation of
supreme spirit intelligence or will depending on the idealist position, and
that the phenomenal world of things and expression is a derivative or extension
of this universal essence. Educationally,
it maintains that, though man's struggles and endeavors are in part efforts of
reciprocal adjustment to a natural and social environment, his ultimate aim is
to control this environment and his own energies and employ them in the
development of those potentialities within him.
These of course, are in harmony with God who created all of us.
24 personage: a
human individual : person : one distinguished for presence and personal power. personalis : being conscious of one's
self. Self, human. individual. An
individual's temporary behavior or character.
The union of elements (body, emotions, thoughts, sensations) that
constitute the individuality and identity of a person. This is what the self has become and is a metaphor composite of a cognating
human being.
1phenomenology
: (Husserl, E). to go back to the
things themselves",
25. Make : Mahhon :to prepare, behave, act.
To cause to happen or be experienced by someone. To cause to exist or appear. To bring into being by forming shaping or
altering. Compose. As making a metaphor To put together from components. To form and hold in the mind. Establish, fashion, and shape
25 maximus:
great/much : a general truth, fundamental (high) principle. An essence in a metaphor.
26 techne: art, craft <technography>
artificial, devised by art, a body of technical methods. A method of accomplishing a desired aim.
26 technologia :
method of achieving a practical purpose.
The totality of the means employed to provide objects. techne : reveals whatever does not bring
itself forth. Technology is a way of
revealing (7.0)Heidegger, "The
Question Concerning Technology
27 existentialism : (1930) a chiefly
twentieth century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but
centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and
the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his
acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or
good or bad.
28 responsible
: liable to be called upon to answer. Able to answer for one's conduct and
obligations. Able to choose for oneself
between right and wrong. Accountable.
Implies holding a specific office duty or trust. Such as that of an architect.
29 Happiness : for Socrates it is the goal
of life. It is a waste to search for it
in the stars. The first requirements of
individual happiness are to return to one's inner self and to understand one's
essence. "Gnothi seauton": Know
thyself.
30 esse : to be;
is. The permanent (constant) as
contrasted with the accidental (variable) element of being. The individual, real, or ultimate nature of
thing especially as opposed to its existence.
Its basic attributes.
31 emulate : aemulus : strive to equal or excel.
Imitate : etiology : a branch of knowledge concerned with the causes of
particular phenomena e.g. what is the cause and origin of a metaphor?
32. Phillip Winters, New York city, 1970 for the "Laboratories for Metaphoric
Environments" (L.M.E.) Inc.
33 maievtikos :
Midwifery; relating to the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another.
34. essentialism :
(1927)An educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture be taught
to all alike by time‑tested methods.
Compatible with a philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to essence
embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses.
This as opposed to "nominalism" (the theory that only
individuals and no abstract entities (as essences, classes propositions) exist. Essentialism is a basis for metaphors and metametaphors for without
essences there can be no metaphors.
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Researched
Publications: Refereed and Peer-reviewed Journals: "monographs":
Barie
Fez-Barringten; Associate professor Global University
1. "Architecture
the making of metaphors"
Main
Currents in Modern Thought/Center for Integrative Education; Sep.-Oct. 1971,
Vol. 28 No.1, New Rochelle, New York.
2."Schools
and metaphors"
Main
Currents in Modern Thought/Center for Integrative Education Sep.-Oct. 1971,
Vol. 28 No.1, New Rochelle, New York.
3."User's
metametaphoric phenomena of architecture and Music":
“METU”
(Middle East Technical University: Ankara, Turkey): May 1995"
Journal of
the Faculty of Architecture
4."Metametaphors
and Mondrian:
Neo-plasticism and its' influences in architecture"
1993 Available on Academia.edu since 2008
5. "The
Metametaphor of architectural education",
North Cypress, Turkish University. December, 1997
6."Mosques
and metaphors" Unpublished,1993
7."The
basis of the metaphor of Arabia" Unpublished,
1994
8."The
conditions of Arabia in metaphor" Unpublished,
1994
9. "The
metametaphor theorem"
Architectural
Scientific Journal, Vol. No. 8; 1994 Beirut Arab University.
10.
"Arabia’s metaphoric images" Unpublished, 1995
11."The
context of Arabia in metaphor" Unpublished,
1995
12. "A
partial metaphoric vocabulary of Arabia"
“Architecture:
University of Technology in Datutop; February 1995 Finland
13."The
Aesthetics of the Arab architectural metaphor"
“International
Journal for Housing Science and its applications” Coral Gables, Florida.1993
14."Multi-dimensional
metaphoric thinking"
Open
House, September 1997: Vol. 22; No. 3, United Kingdom: Newcastle uponTyne
15."Teaching
the techniques of making architectural metaphors in the twenty-first century.” Journal of King Abdul Aziz University Engg...Sciences;
Jeddah: Code: BAR/223/0615:OCT.2.1421 H. 12TH
EDITION; VOL. I and
“Transactions” of
Cardiff University, UK. April 2010
16. “Word
Gram #9” Permafrost: Vol.31
Summer 2009 University of Alaska Fairbanks; ISSN: 0740-7890; page 197
17. "Metaphors and Architecture."
ArchNet.org. October, 2009.at MIT
18. “Metaphor as an inference from sign”;
University of Syracuse
Journal of Enterprise Architecture;
November 2009: and nominated architect of the year in special issue
of Journal
of Enterprise Architecture explaining the unique relationship between
enterprise and classic building architecture.
19. “Framing the art vs. architecture argument”;
Brunel University (West London); BST: Vol. 9 no. 1: Body, Space & Technology Journal: Perspectives
Section
20. “Urban Passion”: October 2010; Reconstruction
& “Creation”; June 2010; by C. Fez-Barringten; http://reconstruction.eserver.org/;
21. “An architectural history of metaphors”:
AI & Society: (Journal of human-centered and machine intelligence) Journal
of Knowledge, Culture and Communication: Pub: Springer; London; AI &
Society located in University of Brighton, UK;
AI & Society. ISSN (Print) 1435-5655 - ISSN
(Online) 0951-5666 : Published by
Springer-Verlag;; 6 May 2010 http://www.springerlink.com/content/j2632623064r5ljk/
Paper copy: AIS Vol. 26.1.
Feb. 2011; Online ISSN 1435-5655; Print ISSN 0951-5666;
DOI 10.1007/s00146-010-0280-8; : Volume 26, Issue 1 (2011), Page 103.
22. “Does Architecture Create Metaphors?; G.Malek;
Cambridge; August 8,2009
Pgs 3-12 (4/24/2010)
24. “The sovereign built metaphor”: monograph
converted to Power Point for presentation to Southwest Florida Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects. 2011
25.“Architecture:the making of metaphors”:The
Book;
Contract
to publish: 2011
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