Education

In most of art academis and in many architecture schools, the dominant pedagogical model was founded on a master-disciple relationship. Creative or technical knowledge could only be passed by the supervision of master, whose opinion was a replication of the academy’s official styles. Any challenges to this order are considered heretical.

As the seminal L.A. artist, who has a studio in Santa Monica, John Baldsessari and other L.A. art educators founded CalArts program in the 1970s years, he tried to upend the current model by leading his students to the open conversation and critique about the practices of artists, that could be between student and student, students and teachers and even teachers and teachers. They think that art can not be taught, so just put the students in the environment of artists, that will free their minds to understand and to create individually. They call it post-studio art practice. It can be used in the same way in architecture.

“Technology is a cruel tool, because what it does is defer the possibility of the student being creative.It takes away from you value judgment .

Peter Eisenman