Beginning July 1, the USC School of Architecture will have a new dean: Milton Curry, now associate dean for academic affairs and strategic initiatives at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. What’s your sense of the USC architecture school’s willingness to embrace theory more actively than it has? We have to provide the pathway for those students — not only underrepresented minorities but lower-income students, students from rural areas. When I was walking through campus during interviews, I saw a lot of high school students from the neighborhood. The Michigan Architecture Prep initiative speaks to something that’s benefiting indigenous Detroiters.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 27, 2017 15:00 UTC