Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Studio Culture
Some people see studio as a class, I see it as the only place where we can be as creative as we want without being criticized for it. It is the one place where we can express ourselves and find our own style of architecture before we get to the real world. When working for a firm with real clients, one has to be a little reserve because you are working with other people in the firm and the clients already have an idea of what they want, so you can't do exactly what you want whether you like it or not. The other good aspect of studio is being able to work with your peers, a social networking if you will. I can't begin to count how many times I ask my friends what they think about an idea that I have and how much good feedback I will receive. Most of the time I will get more feedback from my peers than I will my teachers, not because the teachers don't help, but because my peers have the ability to explain certain things better. I guess that's because most of us know each others projects in and out and have a little more incite into what we are trying to accomplish. I also believe it has a lot to do with the ability to communicate easier with my peers than my teachers, so my peers understand what I'm talking about more than the teachers do. The only problem with studio I have, where I think it can improve, is the space layout of the studio. Its only set up for studio and not for the ability to work on other classes while taking a break from your project. It can get pretty loud and disorganized very quickly in there. I would like to see some quiet spaces in studio for studying and things like that so you wouldn't have to leave the studio. That and because the projects can get somewhat big, I feel the desks are a little small and I don't have enough room to work, which is why I will do a lot of my work at my apartment because I have more room to stretch out and feel more comfortable. That problem however may not be fixable though. With that exception, studio is greatly needed in architecture and I hope it never goes away.
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I completely agree with you, I feel like there should be some sort of bubble we can put up around our desks for when we are working on something other than studio projects. Haha. Maybe even if we just had a certain room that we can go to do work. For now all we have are our headphones and however loud we need the music to be to drain away the sound of the studio around us.
ReplyDeleteA bubble isn't a bad idea! Maybe that should be the next ARCH 350 project, to design a "bubble" that people can escape to, to study, relax, etc. It could exist somewhere in studio, made with soundproof materials or something of that nature. I could almost see this as some sort of geometric blob, somehow attached to the wall or something; a combination of Norman Foster meets Neil Denari. Could be quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think that if we were to spend any more time in studio, the place would be more of a mental institution than a studio. I actually appreciate the fact that you can get a break from studio and work on other classes elsewhere, as exciting as studio can be at times, I think it would be very depressing being in the same place all the time. We are architecture students, we need to get out sometimes, after all, how else would we get genuine inspiration for our projects? Take Santiago Calatrava for example, the inspiration for most of his buildings comes from studying animals and how they move. I think that if we all we did was stay in studio, removed from everything else, we might still have good projects, the difference is that they might lack meaning.
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