Word: teaching
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Fashion people and architects have long been giving each other dirty looks; fashion designers don't get the respect that architects do, and architects don't get their own perfume brands. The graduate school of design, which does not teach fashion, just gave japanese designer rei kawakubo the excellence in design award; does this mean a cease-fire...
...Silvetti, the head of the Department of Architecture, traditionally the most esteemed of design disciplines, in a school that does not teach fashion design, warmly embraced Kawakubo and the art of fashion as a whole. He continued to address issues of the appropriateness of giving such an award to a sector of design that some dismiss as gossamer. What are shifts of flowing fabric next to the bulwark of a solid concrete wall whose construction follows logically from an architectural blueprint...
...exam is "fair to minorities, because now you have to teach everybody," says Emma Stickgold, a CRLS senior and a member of the student school committee...
...University teaches more by how it behaves it the world than by what it says in the classroom," he said. "Harvard must teach compassion and caring for other people...
None of this should be surprising. The latest versions of Doom, Mortal Kombat and Half Life feature realistic sound effects and depictions of violence that are close to motion-picture quality, as limbs are blown off and organs splattered. These games teach kids to connect gore and glory in a fantasy world in which the most vicious killers are the winners...