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sciences - and they have the
opportunity to attain six-year
master's degree, according to
Marie Hoistad, chair of the depart
ment of architecture.
For the first two years of the
program students must maintain
a 2.0 grade point average while
working in the “Bam,” an open
space on the north side of the
Architecture Hall's link.
As an controlled enrollment
program, to enter the program's
third year, Hoistad said students
must pass reviews in which three
faculty review each student’s port
folio and transcript
About 120 students start the
program and 30 percent of them
drop the major because they
come to the realization that archi
tecture isn’t for them said Hoistad,
who graduated from Houston
University and won the state
masonry award for the design of
Security Financial Life's new
headquarters in Lincoln.
"Secondary education does a
good job of preparing students
who deal with text and numbers -
those two languages,” Hoistad
said, “but they do very little to pre
pare one for using form as a lan
guage.
"Asaresult, die majority of stu
dents haven’t had adequate
preparation. That's why a large
number of the students self-select
out”
About 50 or 60 students apply
to get into the third year of the pro
gram with only 45 spaces avail
able, he said. Once students make
this cut, they can stay in the pro
gram until their sixth year if they
maintain a 2.6 grade point average
their third and fourth years and a
3.0 their fifth and six years.
Drummond, Rex and Hoistad
recognize the long hours students
are giving to the program, but
each wonders if the situation is
exaggerated.
Said Hoistad: "It has to do with
the culture of the place. There's a
kind of energy here that you love
to hate - or hate to love.”
Dean Drummond said the
extended hours were along stand
ing tradition in schools of archi
tecture worldwide, not just UNL
or America’s higher education
institutions.
“The architecture building is
open 24 hours a day, seven days a
week,” he said. “Does that make us
better intellectually or better in
terms of creativity? That's the real
issue. The design process is open
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“It’s not like you can open the
back of your history book and find
that the battle of so-and-so took
place on this date, and then you
say to yourself, ‘I know that date.’
“You could continue to work
months and months at a time on a
project I’m not really advocating
the process (the all-nighter), but I
do recognize'it as a world phe
nomenon.”
The field even has a term for
working extensive hours -
charette - the French word for
“cart” The term refers, to students
working at the ficole des Beaux
Arts in Paris who realized, in the
past, they could continue working
on their projects inside the cart
that came along to collect them at
deadline.
Said Professor Rex:
“Charetting is when you’re pulling
all-nighters repeatedly. Often
times, this stuff becomes a de
facto fraternity, where students
have a lot in common. They take a
lot of classes together. They get to
know each other really well and
feel comfortable around each
other.
meres usually somebody en
charette in this building, and it's a
comfortable thing. It’s an uncom
fortable-comfort^
Hoistad said charetting could
be an effective means of brain
storming and realizing the possi
bilities ahead during heightened
intensity a week before a project’s
due, but didn't recommend it ^
“Different students handle it
more gracefully or less gracefully
depending on how they’ve man
aged to develop time manage
ment skills,” he said. “Some peo
ple are better at it than others. But
there’s no reason why you should
be staying up all night because
your productivity drops off so
badly. It doesn’t make sense.”
Rex agreed with Hoistad.
“A lot of students here see the
lights burning too long for their
comfort,” he said. He also empha
sized the pressure the students
deal with.
“Students are here to train to
be professionals,” Rex said. “If you
go over and look at the Med.
School people in Omaha and talk
to them about their hours, they
work a whole lot more than we da
The difference is they (students)
are very young when they start
doing this. So there are a lot of
weaknesses in terms of discipline,
scheduling and understanding
the priorities in their lives. Your
asking very young people to do
very mature work.”
The degrees offered by the
College of Architecture aim to be
applicable to all areas of die social
spectrum. Many students use
their degrees for other fields of
employment, said both Rex and
Hoistad.
Hoistad said die critical think
ing and problem solving skills
embedded in the studio system
prepared students to take on any
problem they are confronted with.
Many graduates go into Web
development, the movie industry,
product design and landscape
fields, he said. Hoistad even knew
of an architecture graduate who
began his career designing dentist
offices and ended up becoming a
dentist himself.
Rex said the program at UNL
was ahead of others of the univer
sity’s colleges in the amount of
time professors spend with stu
dents.
“There’s no other building on
campus where so much personal
attention by professors is lavished
on students,” he said. “It is a two
way street. By the end of the
semester, I’ve sat and talked and
worked with every one of my stu
dents.
Name me a program m me
university where every student
has at least 10 hours by the time
they finish first semester second
year of one-on-one contact with a
university professor.”
Rex said die students have the
nicest facilities on campus as a
trade-off for the work they per
form.
“First, how many students
have their own building?” he said.
“Second, if they have their own
building, how many have a photo
lab, a computer lab, a wood shop,
and their own library, solely dedi
cated to them?”
Hoistad summed up the pro
gram best
Within the notion of an archi
tectural education, there’s always
been an emphasis toward estab
lishing a good liberal foundation
because we interpreters of cul
ture,” he said.
"It is our position to translate
the wants, needs, desires and aspi
rations of the client, be it an indi
vidual or be it a collective, into a
physical environment that hope
fully will be meaningful to them.”
It’s nice to have good facilities,
including studio spaces for almost
every student, a wood shop, an
immense library, exhibition gal
leries and classrooms, to work
with. The college couldn’t really do
anything else to further accom
modate the students it already
has. This program is focused in all
aspects.
“I think they (students) realize
it’s a very special environment,”
Drummond said.
And they should.
