“This kind of pedagogical approach, where students are engaged with a ‘real’ client, has the potential to be very informative for the design process ... Usually people view constraints as detrimentally restrictive, but I think in this case it allows students to always have parameters by which to judge their work.” [...]
[Yanbo Li ’16] said that the studio is a “perennial favorite” among senior architecture majors from year to year, and said his own experience was not an exception.
— yaledailynews.com
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Exposure to real clients is a good thing. It's also unfortunate (and telling) that this arrangement is rare enough that it warrants mention. It should be commonplace by the last year of school.
And while we'd all like more arts-program clients, exposure to more common clients (developers of housing, office space, and/or retail) would be very challenging and eye-opening.
I was part of a (rare) studio in which we had a (difficult) client, who also had retained a licensed architect to work with us. Great studio, in addition to getting beaten down by the client... No pleasing that guy, he even fired the architect!
There ya go! That's some real-world experience.
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