IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on ‘toxic culture’ in architectural education.
… pretty architecture pictures that students post on Instagram don’t reflect the often-ugly reality of an education in architecture…
Mariam Al-Irhayim writes in the Architects’ Journal:
After the revelations of bullying and discrimination at The Bartlett, we need to make sure all universities are doing enough to protect students, writes recent Part 2 student Mariam Al-Irhayim.
The pretty architecture pictures that students post on Instagram don’t reflect the often-ugly reality of an education in architecture. The truth is that it is very demanding, and students now face different types of pressures from increasing debt, the cost of living crisis, extortionate rents and navigating post-pandemic learning.
Architecture schools are, frankly, not good enough: we need to raise standards. No student seeking an education should be treated without respect. Schools need to champion the student experience and the path to becoming a chartered architect, while ensuring safe ethical working conditions….
It would be convenient to assume that architectural teaching is questionable only at The Bartlett….It’s not just The Bartlett, there are others…. A systematic toxic culture prevails.
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