13th May 2009, 09:37 AM
Actually, the comparison between architecture and archaeology is an interesting one. I'll try and explain: this is what an architect's training (from the University of Maryland because it was highly ranked on Google) looks like.
"The first two years of the curriculum focus on developing a broad-based and well-rounded liberal education complemented by a selection of courses that incrementally introduce students to architecture. Students are exposed to the numerous resources of the University while gaining a better understanding of their own academic and career interests. The Architecture Program provides undergraduate advisors who work closely with each student to ensure that his or her career goals are being met and that appropriate academic opportunities are being pursued. The latter two years of the curriculum are centered on design studios, with complementary coursework in architectural history, theory, technology and visual media.
In a sense, when combined with the Master of Architecture (professional degree) the pre-professional Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree can be viewed as analogous to pre-law or pre-med baccalaureates. "
So after a Bachelor's an architect isn't considered capable of operating as a professional. More important, their training (cast in archaeology terms) is focused at the BSc level on the history and theory of archaeology, and producing the equivalent of DBAs and project designs. Then, during the professional degree (MA), they learn how to cost projects, engineering and management principles and that sort of thing.
What are they not learning? They're not learning HOW TO PUT UP THE BUILDING, that is, the equivalent of excavation and recording in archaeology!
"The first two years of the curriculum focus on developing a broad-based and well-rounded liberal education complemented by a selection of courses that incrementally introduce students to architecture. Students are exposed to the numerous resources of the University while gaining a better understanding of their own academic and career interests. The Architecture Program provides undergraduate advisors who work closely with each student to ensure that his or her career goals are being met and that appropriate academic opportunities are being pursued. The latter two years of the curriculum are centered on design studios, with complementary coursework in architectural history, theory, technology and visual media.
In a sense, when combined with the Master of Architecture (professional degree) the pre-professional Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree can be viewed as analogous to pre-law or pre-med baccalaureates. "
So after a Bachelor's an architect isn't considered capable of operating as a professional. More important, their training (cast in archaeology terms) is focused at the BSc level on the history and theory of archaeology, and producing the equivalent of DBAs and project designs. Then, during the professional degree (MA), they learn how to cost projects, engineering and management principles and that sort of thing.
What are they not learning? They're not learning HOW TO PUT UP THE BUILDING, that is, the equivalent of excavation and recording in archaeology!