Or our Haluk Akakce, who is an accomplished painter working on airport projects imbuing them with color, pattern and light. Not a requirement for entry, but an interesting fact. Architecture, interiors, fashions, graphics and painting all met in common rooms and classes-a mixing and combining occurred through curriculum and physical proximity. Schools producing practitioners with broad knowledge and unique focus. While encouraging joint majors may be a start, I believe that the bulk of the burden of enlivening students rests with the faculty.
Someone needs to turn on the alarm clock and wake the sleepers.
Capable isn't enough. Someone needs to let undergraduates know that ordinary isn't enough. Perhaps this is the result of how curriculum is structured. They seem to be laboring under the impression that what passes as completeness equals entree. I'd rather find spark and wit than a working drawing.