Rafael Viñoly Architects Training in Architecture
A significant gap lies between what is taught in architecture school and what is learned through practice. The training program helps fill that gap with instruction that is informed by practice and that seeks to transmit some of this knowledge in the form of focused, comprehensible lessons. Rafael Viñoly developed the course’s original syllabus in 2005, drawing on his own experience of making buildings and his theories about architectural form, process, practice, and teaching.
After three years, Rafael Viñoly and his fellow practitioners and teachers created a new curriculum for fall 2008. Drawing on the firm’s own experience in training young architects, it was organized around a few central questions: How do architects learn to make good decisions within the context of a project, a schedule, and a budget? How do they learn what they need to know to make decisions? How do they learn what questions to ask? Like the original curriculum, the 2008 program covered every aspect of a project, from initial conceptualization through completion. Classes were given by Rafael Viñoly and senior colleagues and included site visits to buildings in progress.
The training program for 2010-2011 is currently under development.
