Archinect - News2024-12-24T11:03:36-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/131272620/what-s-trending-at-architecture-student-shows-this-summer
What's trending at architecture student shows this summer? Alexander Walter2015-07-06T19:00:00-04:00>2015-07-13T17:07:12-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0d/0ddcfqw7zn7u1qm6.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>At best, the work in the student shows is committed, hard-worked, brave, skilled, thoughtful and/or imaginative. At worst, the exhibitions offer bad sci-fi, lazy politics (“Let’s all hate America”) and cod poetry. There are cliches that have been going round the schools for decades, such as the idea that the student’s work is a quasi-science (a “surgical operation”, a “laboratory”). Certain buzzwords float around (there’s a lot of “liminal”).</p></em><br /><br /><p>Architecture critic Rowan Moore goes on to ask: "At root is the central question of architectural education: is it about preparing students for the realities of practice or is it about taking a freedom they will never have again, to dream and speculate?"</p><p>This has been discussed on Archinect before, but what's your personal take in light of the latest student shows architecture schools around the world presented to the public this summer? Any highlights everybody still HAS to go and see? What disappointed you?</p>