Archiculture takes a thoughtful, yet critical look at the architectural studio. . In the clip, a very polemical topic was brought to the table: What is a good architect ?
The architect is the one who creates buildings to meet people’s needs, but it has more to than just blocks of concrete. In fact architecture is mainly about understanding humans behaviors and desires by observing and analyzing, It is what a person experiences in her day-to-day life while walking on the streets, visiting friends ad family, traveling… . To understand the question more deeply the cameras followed a group of Archiculture takes a thoughtful, yet critical look at the architectural studio. The 25-minute film offers a unique glimpse into the world of studio-based, design education through the eyes of a group of students finishing their final design projects.
The design studio is a very unique world, where student free their imagination, responding to problems or creating them. The architecture students spend hours working each one next the other, debating, questionning each other’s work, with the goal of creating more ad better.
But this intense rhythm has its ups and also its down, while having fun and enjoying the evolution of their projects, many students claim that they suffer from a lack of sleep or anxiety… .
Perhaps the most challeging part of the project is the critique. The critism plays a major role in the process. Many students feel frustrated when recieving criticism, but they should not. Good architects take into consideration any type of remark, because other people point of views are the key to an incredible final project.
You have to be able to think clearly to practice architecture.
An architect needs to learn smthg new everyday for the rest of their lifes.
On the other hand, the reality of the world and what students are thought in architecture schools are far different one from the other. It is considered that schools do not prepare students for the reality that might be frustrating. During the career the soon-to-be architect has not limits and no boundaries, he’s the only chef of the project, while in reality working as an architect implies working on a budget, and learning to work in group taking into account everybody opinions -that might be contraditary the his- .
Hopefully even if some architects are “pessimistic” many others are optimistic and believe in the future architects capacities to surpass all types of obstacles, enovating architecture.
I really love the video, as it sum up pretty well the archiculture giving a closer and true look on what architecture is as a career academically and professionally.
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