AFAIK, the ACBA in Charleston is the leading trade school in the country when it comes to traditional building methods and crafts.
Let’s pretend that this program takes off to unprecedented levels and multiple more colleges utilizing its curriculum are established and the amount of “skilled labor” increases 10x over.
Would the common architectural objection and gripe about building reminiscent of the past that “we don’t build that way anymore because we have nobody to do it” finally go away? Would we start to see barrel vaulted structural brickwork come back? I’m being serious.
Because aside from philosophical reasonings, the biggest factor for building “like we used to” comes down the money, and money comes down to labor. So barring some snobbish reluctance to “look backward”, if clients get wind of an uptick in skilled laborers, will we see a new dynamic in architecture?
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