Title

Ron Lubman interview, 1995 March 27

Contributor Names

Poll, Carol (Interviewer)

Lubman, Ron

Date

1995-03-26

Date Digitized

2020

Description

This is an interview with FIT professor, architect, and designer Ron Lubman. He discusses his professional interior design experience and the future of design in relation to computers. Lubman was tapped to help found the Electronic Learning Facility, which educated students and faculty on the coming world of computers. He discusses how early demonstrations of computer-aided design were met with major opposition. Lubman goes on to discuss several courses he built on three dimensional space manipulation and how he instills in design students the ability and desire to illustrate technically. Lubman goes into how his coursework resembles Hollywood's processes and touts Columbia's "Paperless Studio" as the future of design practice. Lubman then discusses FIT students and how they can be overwhelmed by computer skills without proper motivation. Lubman was recruited to FIT after he gave a lecture on the future of computers in architecture and interior design. He talks about changes in the student body over time and finally discusses interior design faculty reactions to computer-aided design.

Type

Moving Image

Oral histories

Subject

Lubman, Ron

Panero, Julius

Fashion

Education

Interior decoration

Architectural design

Architects

Computer drawing

Computer-aided design

Virtual reality

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)

New York (State)

New York (State)--New York

Related Materials

Finding Aid

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000842

SPARC reference code: US.NNFIT.SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.16