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@ JoshScott187
Lol, it absolutely is a touched nerve! The architectural profession is fucked enough without the meandering, pseudo-intellectual, self-aggrandising pomp of schools like the Bartlett further removing their students from reality. Yes I went to London Met, where I met a similar set of ivory tower-dwelling egotists, but at least its [the school's] heart is in the right place.
The (intended?) irony of your comment regarding 'archifactories' is that they do go straight to places like the bartlett to pick up graduates. Most Bartlett students I know of went to work at very large practices; it must be tough going from years of making self-metabolising tree houses made from fictional building components to compiling drainage schedules for banal office buildings.
By the way, I'm not having a dig at the students, I just think the whole system and its hopeless, drawn-out training needs a complete overhaul. It barely even leaves graduates with a saleable trade, just a drummed-in sense of blind dedication fueled by false ideas about the greater good. End of rant.