The most compelling thing about architecture school is that it is, in essence, a bunch of semi-related subjects thrown into a blender to create something that, by the time you…
One does not simply study architecture. They must also be fully willing to embrace a nocturnal lifestyle, cultivate a taste for rejection and experience patience-testing scenarios that become funny anecdotes,…
Architecture is a gruelling and grinding process. When I began my journey to become an architect I was excited along with being very nervous. My first year went by really…
At the end of every chapter, it makes sense to review lessons learned, reflect on errors and accomplishments, consider then continuing that way, or take a different path. Having finished…
Booming to knowledge from a beginner not really understanding the veracity of the tall standing structures to simply gazing at the wonderful strikes of curves and lines, voids and spaces,…
From being an aspiring architect to being endorsed with an Ar. prefix, this journey has been all about learning and experiences. The course is very vast and each one of…
If your drafting table becomes a bed at 6 AM, and your sheet a pillow, welcome to the architecture students life. If you have bodybuilding training it might come in…
Under-eye bags, sleepless nights, printing anxiety, and complete black outfits are a staple of any architecture student. However, this was not the case when I had not joined this fateful…
We have all been there, haven’t we? The pleasure of opening the new set of Steadler’s drawing pencil sets and sharpening them with shiny new blades, until the next design…
If you try to picture yourself in school, you will soon be hit with the nostalgic memory of yourself, carrying heavy backpacks. Unfortunately for many architecture students, this evocation is…
When the night falls and the entire campus is surrounded by an aura of silence and emptiness, in one corner the architecture department shines in its glory. Sounds dramatic? But…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone reading this! On the 25th, I gave up and watched the movie Polar Express again, and I cannot help but use…