Architectural education : The core and the local

Perhaps, the most important challenge that architectural education faces today, perhaps even more serious than responding to the technological development of computer based design and drafting, is the recognition of the fact that next to the ‘global’, ‘universal’ ‘knowledge’ of architecture, – or ‘core’ as it is often called – there is ‘local’ knowledge that corresponds to each of the many regions of the world and that this ‘local’, ‘regional’ knowledge has to be taken into account in architectural practice and in architectural education.