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The architecture studio is all about experimenting and exploring ideas.
Imagining and postulating, about trying new things out.
I think that would be one of the major strengths of the studio, this opportunity to be able
to share and collaborate.
Students can really have a taste of the professional environment.
This communal environment where students are really working together with mentors with
tutors, and it’s really trying to give them a taste of what they are going to experience
when they are out there actually as practicing architects.
In industry it’s really important to work in a group.
Learning to do that and being able to be flexible and communication within the studio environment
is really important.
Students have the chance to apply the theories and knowledge they have acquired.
So this is where students get to own their ideas and actually experiment and explore
all sorts of exciting and rich concepts.
You know you work on trace, you work on your ipad and you got your laptop and it’s a
real hybrid of ideas.
One day I had a set up, I had the computer here, a huge big sheet of butchers paper,
and then a physical model here.
And it helps you to change from media to media, to be able to just explore concepts, and in
doing that you really develop your own process.
You really have your own style and ideas, so its a really great, loose environment.
It’s a really nice light casual environment you feel free to create and express and actually
make progress.
You’re all working towards the same goal but you’re all coming from such different
angles. As a studio culture it’s really a great place to be in.
You kind of really do learn about yourself and how you work as a person and in that you
can capture that in your designs and your design process.
I think if you are that way inclined and if you’re thinking about doing, it’s definitely
something to go for and go do it, I think, yeah.