To me it is totally truth. I had same experience and I've seen the same in many different schools of architecture in Latin America and Europe. To me is really unbelievable how design is treated independent from construction, considering that architecture, to be such, it has to be built. However in training architectural workshops (common format to teach architecture) you see design standing mostly by itself, without deep comprehension of how it has to be build up. I call that "paper architecture". I have to say that many professors love such things, they believe is a kind of "art". Unfortunately most of the time is no more than a nice drawing. Actually after finishing Ms in Architecture, I did not know but nothing about construction. I learned by doing when I built my own house. It has been so far the only work I've done as architect in my life anyway, because I was since always interested in cities. And here in this field I've seen another fact which still surprises me: architects advocating being in charge of cities. I've seen many colleagues doing urban planning without any understanding of urban process, and facing this complex discipline only as a "design" in a large scale. This is totally wrong and I think is playing against the prestige of the profesion. In my case everything I've done as urban planner I have learned in postgraduates studies, where you have to study a lot of things you can hardly learn in schools of architecture. Nowadays you see more and more that cities are becoming a matter of science. At the same time you see how architects are loosing their historical role within urban issues. Schools of architecture should take seriously this trend and reformulate their curriculums towards the future.

First, it describes architectural education and what it entails, how architecture

pedagogy takes on different criteria ensuring that academia responds to technical

advancement, society requirements and future world strategies. Then it moves to

describing architecture accreditation bodies in the UK, USA, Australia and the

Commonwealth countries in terms of their history, validation criteria and specific

differences between them.

Architectural education is the manifestation of the ability to conceptualise, coordinate

and execute the idea of building, rooted in the tradition of humanism . It

prepares the undergraduates for their future role in different aspects in relation to the

built environment; therefore, the public’s needs, the building context, the relationship

between the built environment and the natural environment and the impact of the

natural forces, must be addressed as major factors influencing the design of the built

environment . It was found that university instructors often model their

instructing methods on the courses they attended as undergraduates, and their

courses are content-driven . Therefore acquiring good

educational outcomes necessitated the founding of architecture accrediting bodies in

different countries around the world starting from the UK in the 19th century 

. Here, the accreditation is considered as acceptance of certain

syllabus specifications that are taken by schools of architecture that fashion them into a course taught to undergraduates.

Actually there are many architectural higher educations which focus on both "Architectural Design" and "Construction" including in my institution. But we frequently encounter the problem of superimposing both design and its construction, since "the so called paper architecture" as mentioned above by Luis Inostroza usually avoiding the reasonable construction for the sake of name it "venustas"(beauty) or art. I've been involved in some constructions of designed building, and it's really time consuming in synchronizing the design with its construction if we didn't consider the construction in the first place. Seems we have to reconsider what has been formulated by Benjamin Handler concerning "System Approach to Architecture". We have to design and consider the architectural design, the construction, maintenance and repair, and human behavior if it possible the end of usage of the building, simultaneously in the DESIGN STAGE, it's called a cradle - to - grave design.