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Deborah Berke highlights ’the history of pluralism’ at the schools for climate change, globalization

United States Architecture News - Jul 29, 2016 - 19:04   14336 views

Deborah Berke highlights ’the history of pluralism’ at the schools for climate change, globalization

Deborah Berke, Dean of Yale School of Architecture and founder of New York -based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners and she is the prominent name of Women in Architecture worldwide. In this interview published in CTPost, Berke intimately explains her opinions about the dominance of male architects in the profession as well as the new structures of the educational systems repeated at the schools. Berke emphasizes that the curriculum of the schools should follow up 'pluralism' regarding some other global issues that can respond to the impact of climate change and globalization.

[....] Her overarching goal is to advance what she calls the “the history of pluralism” at the school, where she has taught for many years as an adjunct and which has an enrollment of about 220, mostly in a three-year master’s program.

In terms of curriculum, her definition of pluralism will expand to include more emphasis on how architecture can respond to the impact of climate change and globalization, both of which she emphasizes as “rapid.” For the student body, which is already about 50 percent female, and faculty, pluralism translates to broader diversity.

“Let’s put it this way,” she says, “the profession of architecture does not look like the population at large and I am going to work hard toward having the architects we train and the architects who teach be more reflective of the population at large.”......Continue Reading

Top image: Deborah Berke, courtesy of UC Berkeley.

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