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"These students began their year-long thesis with the view that there should be more ‘making’ with an architectural curriculum - ‘BUILD-LEARN’. Out of this, grew a project with a real client and user group (in this case a nursery school of pre-school children) which they developed through school workshops and discussions. In doing this, they have demonstrated an exceptional range of professional skills more common in practitioners with considerable experience." Ulrike Enslein The Desire To Make As a pair of students, working towards our Post Graduate Diploma, we were given the impetus to engage in a process of finding a new/unconventional route to architectural practice after falling victim to redundancy due to economic changes. Believing as we do, that a vocational course should be taught in a vocational manner the realisation came that our thesis should be based upon a desire to start ‘making’, after four years of study and a year in practice our hearts desired to ‘make’.There is a visceral side to architecture which is expressed through the tactile nature of materials and the definition to light and space which is conducted by the design, to fully understand this you must appreciate it at all stages of construction....... To read more download the text document below 
Documents: Mark Sneddon & Stuart Russell - Project Text |