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A New Apprenticeship
A New Apprenticeship
A key component of an architect’s education is apprenticeship. How can we nurture informal learning and mentorship in an online working environment?
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The delicate dance that occurs among collaborators when tackling a design problem is a balance of ideas, communication and ego. Innovation can be sparked with a seemingly innocuous comment; heated debates can occur as different paths emerge. It can be exciting. It can be difficult. Emotions that run high must be acknowledged, then relinquished to refocus on the task at hand.
I learned this lesson and many others as a junior intern while working on a very large, complex project. Its success required close collaboration between several strong leaders. Sitting within earshot from two of the project’s architectural principals and working elbow-to-elbow with talented colleagues, the open studio working environment was a crucible of learning. My actual tasks were simple, but by b