Final-year architecture studios across Japan's Chubu region have long carried the scent of freshly milled hinoki and sugi, the cypress and cedar that dominate…
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A project statement is the shortest piece of writing a graduating architecture student ever produces, and the one that travels furthest. It sits at the front…
Architectural graduation projects are often judged through drawings, models, renders and a short verbal presentation. Those formats can make ambitious ideas…
Across design studios from Brisbane to Adelaide, students often discover that the graduation project is less a single bolt of inspiration and more a long…
After the final critique at the NAGOYA Archi Fes, you may find yourself with a few spare days in the Chubu region and a group of fellow architecture students…
For final-year architecture students in Australia's competitive design schools, a presentation board is more than a backing for drawings — it is a tactile…
Architecture students often encounter post-war buildings as photographs, dates and exam references. In Chubu, however, reconstruction is still legible in the…
A graduation project is rarely understood through its final drawings alone. The decisions behind the work—the abandoned schemes, material tests, site…
Sustainability metrics have shifted from optional add-ons to central language in architectural education and practice. For final-year students in the Chubu…
Walking into a juried critique with a scaled model balanced at waist height is a gamble most final-year students eventually lose. The audience is seated, the…