We seek to reclaim design rigour, authenticity, and architecture as a healing act. We go into places of HOPE : areas that are war-torn, poor, suffering. [Suffering includes everything from sub-Saharan AIDS to sprawling McWorlds.]
Umbau is not for the faint of heart.
We are a place of learning [school].
We are unaccredited, not granting degrees, and at present, the ‘curriculum’ is pure studio.
Immediately we go against the norm.
How can you be a school and not accredited?
It is called risking your guts out to learn as much as you can.
At Umbau you must learn to know your limits.
And from there you can do anything.
Graduate level does not mean master’s degrees.
It means you need to have moulted several times and know something about life.
We will take you from any field, discipline, endeavor, and age.
You simply have to be willing TO GET IT ON.
Umbau is about taking on the world.
Not in an academic sense, nor in a professional sense.
Ours are acts of subversion, guerilla-like, improvisario, iconoclastic, remarkably freeing. In time we will change everything around you.
Welcome to the paradigm shift.
Umbau is not about credibility; Umbau is about overturning.
http://umbauschoolofarchitecture.org/
