An architecture college is a parallel universe that does not abide by the norms and rules of this one. Walking into a design studio you will see, flying buildings, designs…
1. The Stress of End-of-Semester Jury As an architecture student, the end-of-semester jury was always a stressful time. They would spend countless hours working on their projects, refining their designs,…
Apart from learning about the difference between principles of design and elements of design, and religiously reciting design edicts like “form follows function” and “less is more”, at architecture school…
Five litres of coffee, 32 GB of music on shuffle, 20 kg of sketching and model making material, computer with hours of battery—just in case of a blackout, and an…
Mark Twain had once said, “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” Here Mark Twain questions what we do in…
Much like a painting, the fraternity of architecture unveils itself with the breakthrough until its completion, a step for every process where we lay our mark onto yet until the…
Architecture as a course is an overall roller coaster ride, right from the sleepless nights and the coffee drills, to the endless redos with deadline pressures. Architecture school is the…
Architecture school for all of us has been a full package of lots of redos, glass traces, model making, software crash, last-minute submission, and many more. But still, when we…
It was a sultry summer afternoon, and all eyes were closed shut in the Building Construction class. Building construction, the name itself was enough to put lazy heads to sleep.…
“How can someone be so crazy about a paper model?” were my exact thoughts when I used to hear stories of architects just like the people outside the architecture community.…
There’s a reason it’s called “School Of Architecture”. Emphasis on the word ‘School’ as this forms the foundation for several concepts, principles, and technicalities to be learned to understand the…
Architecture college is an intense experience, but a definite advantage is the eclectic mix of knowledge gained during this trying, caffeine-fueled journey. Part of this knowledge is specific to the…