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EDUCATION AT THE CROSS ROADS. “We put together thirty spokes and call it a wheel; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the wheel depends. We turn clay to make a vessel; but it is on the space where there is nothing that the utility of the vessel depends. We pierce doors and windows to make a house; and it is on the spaces where there is nothing that the utility of the house depends. Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognise the utility of what is not” _Lao Tse Architectural education today is presently undergoing a phase of transition, owing to other interlinked societal and market forces in the profession. Architectural profession now has inseparably woven itself in the social web. The basic strings of the multi-colored and multi-faceted fabric could be identified in 1. ACADEMICS 2. PRACTICE AND 3. FIELD. The Conflicts and Confusions of Ideologies and Ground Realities may often lead to Compromises, whether be it...

MOTIVATION is the magic key behind MAKING A DIFFERENCE K.R.Ganesh, Professor , School of Architecture, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore-560059. Abstract- The motives, objectives, aims, intentions and goals keep changing or growing with reference to the time, place and context. Once the motives are understood, it is possible to motivate a person or self. Motivation is the ability to make one perform better to achieve a goal. A motive may be a short term intention or a long term aim. Any event or happening or deed to occur three basic things namely need, desire and affordability are very vital. When any one of them is quite strong, other two will fall in place. If in the western context, affordability being so strong, desire follows and only later the need is put (pushed) in place. In case of Orientals, either need or desire is stronger, affordability follows through to excellence. When Buddha propagated “Desire is the root cause of Sorrow”, the implicatio...