Because I value the AA most as one of a very few schools devoted to architecture as a singular mode of life agency, I will attempt in my talk to offer a groundwork for a broad discussion of the problem of educating an architect as a cultural activist as distinct from a service professional. Jeff Kipnis is a critic and theorist, professor at Ohio State University, visiting professor at Columbia University, and founder and former director of the AAGDG, forerunner of the AADRL.