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Originally Posted by gaviscon
But the tower didn't have to be designed with black "stripes"...
I mean, looking at all the condos built across Canada, maybe we have problems with the quality of training at our top architecture schools like UT UBC...
That's how much I'm questioning the architects' training and credentials to design this kind of thing and call it a day at work.
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It's not that simplistic.
Nobody goes to architecture school to learn only residential condo tower design or even specifically to specialise in residential condo tower design (for the most part).
In fact, most people who end up in residential condo tower design got their training for doing so post-graduation after they began their professional career and specialise in that kind of design and work for a firm that specialises in designing that kind of building.
Add to that, there's also the fact that you'll even find some residential towers were designed by people who didn't get their training from architecture school.
Architecture schools will give a generalized foundation and basis for design writ large, to anchor whatever field you end up specializing in (even though some schools can specialize in specific areas. But or the most part, the larger schools don't and in most cases you wouldn't have the resources to do so).
It's a lot more complez and complicated than you settle on the position that architecture schools are to blame, when what it seems you might be better suited blaming is the industry and field as a whole that can either facilitate and foster the better design you're hoping for, or cripple it (through regulations, rules, bylaws, industry standards, market constraints,....etc.).
Canada has some of the best architecture schools in not just North America but the world.