Hari ini tanggal 7 November 2008, Fakultas Arsitektur dan Desain, Unika Soegijapranata - Semarang mengadakan Kuliah Purna Bakti untuk Dr. Ir. Heinz Frick , kuliah ini diadakan di Ruang Teater - Gedung Thomas Aquinas, Kampus Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata.

Kuliah ini mengangkat judul “Pendidikan Arsitektur dan Lingkungan”, dengan pembicara utama Dr. Ir. Heinz Frick. Beliau membahas mengenai architecture education di Indonesia untuk mendidikan arsitek yang memiliki kompentensi dan profesional terhadap pekerjaannya. Pembahasan dimulai dari kurikulum pendidikan arsitektur di Unika sampai dengan membahas seorang arsitek yang siap terjun bekerja di bidang yang selama ini telah dipelajari. Di bahas pula mengenai perencanaan desain yang berwawasan ekologis sehingga hasil desain yang dibuat tersebut tidak hanya fungsional tetapi juga ramah terhadap lingkungan

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IT’S hard to pinpoint when the “starchitect” became an object of ridicule. The term is a favorite of churlish commentators, who use it to mock architects whose increasingly flamboyant buildings, in their minds, are more about fashion and money than function.

Often the attacks are a rehash of the old clichés. Cost overruns and leaky roofs are held up as evidence of yet another egomaniacal artist with little concern for the needs of us, the little people. (As a rule, if a roof leaks in a Frank Gehry building it’s headline news; if the building was designed by a hack commercial architect, the leak is ignored, at least as news.) John Silber, the former president of Boston University, has gotten into the game with “Architecture of the Absurd,” a glib little book that eviscerates contemporary architects for the extravagance of their designs.

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