Burdens of Linearity

...Another issue this process confronts is an overemphasis on arbitrary completion of the work, prompted by the end of a school term, for example, may have unintended consequences for student learning, and the project itself. While there is often great satisfaction for students and faculty on a job well done, it is not entirely clear whether this is a positive pedagogical outcome. Rather than understanding the production of architecture and design as continuous processes of revision, rethinking, and reconsideration, students come to learn that such thinking may quickly interrupt the goal at hand, which is the completion of the project, often dictated by arbitrarily set dates.