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To all the disappointed students
Last year MArch student here, and let me tell you, it doesn’t get better—just clearer how disappointing architecture school really is. I entered with no architecture background and had to teach myself everything, from design approaches to software. The instructors, mostly relics, hold pointless desk crits three times a week without bothering to teach or prepare lectures. They seem to believe that their years in the field somehow qualify as knowledge that can be passed on purely through “critiquing.” Bear in mind, most of them haven’t even practiced architecture!
Best,
A thoroughly disappointed student from your prestigious Canadian architecture school
...that's a Masters though? Your entry / foundation year they should have actually taught you, but afterwards studio is highly self-directed with those critiques nudging you in the right direction.
Tbf professors without actual work experience are iffy, but that's where your cohort helps out...
Hey, at least you did not waste 100k like your American colleagues. But to be fair, if you thought 3x week desk crits were pointless, I think the problem is with the student.
Dont worry, it will get even worse when you are in the profession.
...and double worse if they go into teaching
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