understanding the current job market and getting to grips with speculative applications.
Architecture students are some of the fastest to complain about the stress of the educational experience. Between the claims of sleepless studio nights and ruthless critique, why are we still fighting for a place in the profession?
Soft skill development is still underestimated as an essential part of every architecture course, which can lead to students not being able to cope with the requirements of the degree. Should universities put a larger emphasis on the personal development of their students?
This article is addressed to Black students because there is a lack...
It is one thing to draw and make models and another thing...
Has Frank Lloyd Wright impacted the way we learn architecture? If so it it time to let go of this old fashioned way of teaching?
We’ve put together a compilation of hundreds of thousands of words, that...
The development of the new high-rise student accommodation in Cardiff never stops. Will they help take some burden off the areas overfilled with students, or will it cause more harm than good?
The pandemic has become destructive to our academic year. Whilst schools enforce...
The student accommodation market in Cardiff is not unlike the ones in other cities and towns of Britain – as all universities will not provide students with housing after they finish first year,students have to turn to the private sector – be it the landlords transforming residential properties into homes of multiple occupation and renting them through student letting agencies or large, privately-owned halls. However, neither of these of these options are without faults – while HMOs disrupt and push the communities in areas close to universities to the suburbs, private halls are often financially out of most students’ reach as they are marketed as as luxury accommodations and their architecture is often out of context with both its immediate and wider surroundings.
With thousands of us either working from home, studying from home or...
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