EP 024618 November 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
Architecture's Future: Are Universities Keeping Up? | ft. Alberto Villanueva
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Architecture education is under pressure from all sides: fees, regulation, AI, employability, student expectations and a profession that keeps changing faster than course structures.
Stephen Drew speaks with Alberto Villanueva, Head of Architecture at Ravensbourne University London, about whether universities are keeping up and how education can better connect students with real practice.
The conversation covers:
How architecture education is changing in 2025
Why industry links and commercial awareness matter for students
The financial and policy pressures affecting universities
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Hello everyone. Wherever you are in the world. It is 2025 an Architecture, the state of the industry and the academia. The study of Architecture, we. You're at an interesting time right now. Some would say it might be the midlife crisis of the industry, who knows? But with that comes excitement as well, because that system that we know of, part one, part two, part three, and those old brick and mortar universities, those names that you've been hearing about, there might have been one or reports of one or two.
I don't know all the stuff we've been hearing, but there are new universities as well, and there are new people that are teaching the next generation of Architecture that I am really excited about. So I've got a guest today who I've met for the last year or two who it has literally
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