Architectural Record — "The Pandemic Is Changing How We Practice and How We Live"

Jeanne Gang has brought her firm’s experience with advanced digital tools to the GSD studio she is teaching and believes her students are transitioning easily to remote learning—’without a hitch so far.’ Lacking access to the GSD fabrication lab, they are being encouraged to make ‘analog models at home’ or find ‘other inventive forms of making.’ While she believes the remote studio will make her students ‘stronger at communicating their ideas,’ she also knows what’s missing. As students and practitioners become ever more fluent in new technologies, what they lose, ironically, is something her own office, now working remotely, has always prized. ‘We value our community culture and our shared social space so much,’ she says, ‘which makes being apart more challenging.'”

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