Healer, Heal Thyself!’: Information Management in an Architecture Faculty
- ISBN: 8790078349
Abstract
The architects profession has always been that of an organizer; a coordinator. In an increasingly specialized society such as ours there is an even greater demand for professionals with a wide range of management abilities. Todays architect will have to organize and coordinate the flow, the means and the systematic storage of information in a project. For an institution that produces architects, it is, in the opinion of the authors, vital to not only teach modern contemporary methods of organizing information but also to practice them. If architecture students are to comprehend the necessity of organizing skills & tools, they will have to encounter these from day one of their student life. In 2002, the Faculty of Architecture of Aachen University (RWTH) reached a decision to provide all members of the faculty, teachers and students alike, with a central service for the management of information. That service, called RWTH Information Technology Assistant (RiTA) is to be a set of web-based tools for organizing and managing the curriculum and all matters connected to that. The objective of RiTA is to increase efficiency and transparency in the administration of the faculty.
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