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[archistudent]

You Know You’re No Longer An Archistudent When...

You can’t find your giant roll of butter paper anywhere.

[lifeofan-architecturestudent]

[archistudent]

I can testify it's actually quite therapeutic to trash your models especially when full of pent up angst LOL

[archistudent]

Hi!! I'm thinking of going into architecture and I'm extremely sure about it. Is there any advice you wish you could give yourself before your last year of high school? Thanks !

That's great to hear that you've made up your mind so resolutely! I was quite different and wasn't too sure what I wanted in my last year of high school. I guess I would tell myself not to worry so much because as long as I took steps (no matter how small) in the direction of what I love, and worked hard to always improve and learn, only good things will come out of that :)

[archistudent]

Hey, do you have any tips/ resources on how to design good layouts for a presentation of a project ?

Usually i go to pinterest/google for inspiration, and it'll also depend on what kind of style suits your project. Personally i find too text-heavy panels quite off-putting but text is definitely necessary for explaining larger projects. Try to find a balance. Making sure you use white space well is good too rather than squeezing as much content as possible on your panels.

[archistudent]

Archistudent has graduated from archi school! Apologies for the long unannounced hiatus. I'd like to thank all of you who've followed us on our journey since 2010, 6 years ago. Archi school has been an incredible life-changing experience, and this is only the beginning of our first steps into the real world of architecture and design. The blog will definitely be updated even if sporadic, but i can assure you it'll always be here as a resource and unprofessional-guide for you younglings on how to survive archi school 😉 keep on creating, never let your spirits fail you, my fellow archistudents. - with love from @guinvr

[archistudent]

When there's not enough standing room within the crit space for arguably the most popular projects... Congrats to all 5th year students on completing our last ever final crit for thesis yesterday!!! We made it guys. We finally made it. 🎉

[archistudent]

Hey! I'm an aspiring architecture student and I wanted your opinion of the problems currently faced by Singapore in the architecture scene! And you can add on about the problems you have observed overseas too! Well for me, of course the lack of land in Singapore and priority and water sustenance remain a constant challenge for architects! Thanks:)

Hmm is this in preparation for your interview? Because i wouldn't be thinking of such issues if i was waiting to go into uni....🤔🤔🤔 haha well, that being said, the only issue off the top of my head so far is rising unemployment for local graduates...

[austinkleon]

Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that’s how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you’re not one of them, you’re just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.

Brian Eno, Here Is What Is (cf. David Rakoff: “Writing starts off as shit.”)

[archistudent]

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Architecture / Built Environment

[archistudent]

What is ur interpretation of a "small building"?

Scale is perpetually relative - the Chrysler Building may be big, but it might be small compared to the Burj Khalifa. It would also come down to the definition of a ‘building’ - would the primitive hut be considered a building? It’s a big open question here! 

[seventyfivehundred]

Architecture School: Preparing students for the real world by teaching them how to deflect questions they can’t answer, while still appearing smarter than their clients.

[archistudent]

So guilty. I thoroughly admit to this 😂

[archistudent]

Survived interim crit 3 of final year thesis.

[archistudent]

What is ur interpretation of a "small building"?

Scale is perpetually relative - the Chrysler Building may be big, but it might be small compared to the Burj Khalifa. It would also come down to the definition of a ‘building’ - would the primitive hut be considered a building? It’s a big open question here! 

[archistudent]

We’ve written a post aimed at helping potential new architecture students in UK to get an idea of the route that lies ahead towards qualification as an architect.

[archistudent]

The Omnipresent Existential Crisis

Year 1: omg what is happening

Year 2: What???

Year 3: I've got this-

Year 4: Nope.

Year 5: lololol what am I doing here

Graduates as Architect: What am I going to do again?

[archistudent]

Year 1-4 vs Year 5

Year 1-4: I wish I could do whatever project I want.

Year 5 thesis: SOMEONE ANYONE PLS JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO AND I'LL DO IT. PLEASE.

[archistudent]

The masters students did a thing...with loo roll. [x]

[archistudent]

Found a t-rex and a narwhal in year 1 studios yesterday