PROGRAM DIAGRAM ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL PLUS

Could you figure out a way to make it happen? Throw away the old narrative of wasting time and use your creative powers to craft a schedule for yourself - you got this. That if you could do this, I would give you one million dollars. But what if I asked you to draw that floor plan in half the time, make it extraordinarily awesome, like literally breathtakingly beautiful, AND still have extra time to rehearse your presentation. I can already hear the objections: but Sean there’s just so much work, I HAVE to work on this floor plan for 60 hours before it’s right, there’s no other way. It is a byproduct of getting sucked into the black hole of conversations, of overthinking the details, and of buying into the mythologized narrative of the inescapability of late nights in architecture. An all-nighter is the result of poor planning and a lack of time management.

PROGRAM DIAGRAM ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL PLUS

Even when you start your first studio your professor tells you that you will probably have to be in late to complete your first couple of assignments, in fact, you are expected to be in studio, because it is part of the “culture” and you need to be “immersed” in the program.īut if we step back and think about it, would we really be spending ninety plus hours a week working on our design projects if we weren’t continuously told that it is what was necessary to have “good work?” Probably not.

The reader will probably remember visiting architecture schools as a high school or transfer student where you were warned of the inevitability of the late nights that would be endured once you entered your first year of college. The all-nighter is a phenomenon that has become inseparable from most discussions about design school. “Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.” But, hence the title of this section, try not to fall into the black hole and get sucked away from your larger task - earning your degree. The conversations you have with your peers will be some of the most memorable moments of your time in school, and you should have as many of them as you can. It wasn’t uncommon for me to get a text from my wife at around 9 pm asking if I’d be home soon, after which I’d have to explain how I’d be a bit longer than expected because I hadn’t actually gotten to my work yet (or I was busy playing my second or third chess match). a good college isn’t one with the best name or even the best reputation, but rather a place where one would find themselves up late talking to their colleagues about interesting thingsīut what about our actual school work? We do have a duty to ourselves to do well and the one thing that I remember more than anything was that most of these discussions (sometimes three hours long) always took place during times when I should have been doing my school work. Gladwell believes that it’s in the late night deep dialogues that we learn our most profound lessons. In an interview on The Tim Ferriss Show, Malcolm Gladwell talks about how a good college isn’t one with the best name or even the best reputation, but rather a place where one would find themselves up late talking to their colleagues about interesting things. It was in these conversations that we formulated our ideals about design. Or even those chats about whose diagrams looked the most Bjarke Ingels Group-ish - after all, we all thought we were as brilliant as he was (we weren’t). Those back and forth debates, like whether Le Corbusier was a prophet sent from above or just some overrated plebeian, shaped so much of our convictions as young students.

It was in these moments that my thinking truly deepened. I think one of the most memorable things about my studio experience was all of the procrastinatory conversations I had with my studio mates. Studio mates and the black hole of conversation

We’ll also explore some of the bizarre characteristics of studio culture and how it influences your time as a student. In this article, we’ll look at some aspects that you, as an architecture student, experience every day, whether you’re aware of it or not. Your time in school is dominated by this phenomenon, and it comes with many cultural and social nuances, things that have been passed down year after year. Every other class kind of becomes an afterthought. Studio is a kind of ecosystem we learn to obsess over. It’s your living quarters for five years, where you’ll succeed and fail with a small group of comrades crazy enough to choose a career path in architecture. Throughout your years in architecture school, one thing is always true - everything revolves around studio.

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