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Rich receives “Professor Emeritus of Architecture” for his distinguished and dedicated KSU career.
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University). What has been some of the changes in the way we teach architecture to students. RICH: I think overall, it’s been a good thing. I was skeptical about the consolidation, but I was proved wrong. We are better resourced. Students are benefited, architecture students and others, because we are in a larger community with other disciplines, and I think that’s a good thing. We need to take advantage of that. If we take a trajectory of involving our architecture and construction management students— if that trajectory leads to more understanding, sensitivity, relationship to other disciplines that are now available to us more easily. I think that’s
a good thing. When you and I did a collaboration with game design, and we needed a musical score, I don’t know if you remember, we had to cut a deal with a school in Brooklyn because we didn’t have that. But now we the college of the arts, we have the resource to do that. It’s easier now, and we have to take advantage of it. CHRIS: So in that thought of collaboration. How does the school reach out to the profession more? RICH: Well, the profession wants certain
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