In Japan’s Chubu region, fire festivals turn ordinary streets, riverbanks and shrine precincts into carefully choreographed civic rooms. Flames mark routes,…
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A graduation project often contains months of research, testing and revision, yet a visitor may spend only a few minutes with it. They might understand the…
Architecture is shaped by many kinds of knowledge. A building must support daily life, respond to climate, communicate an idea and work within social, economic…
A strong architectural project can lose its impact if the explanation is vague, overloaded or difficult to follow. In a graduation exhibition or juried review,…
Across central Japan, canals are more than traces of an industrial past. They are working pieces of urban infrastructure, ecological corridors, transport…
A site model has to explain more than the shape of a building. In a shared exhibition space, it must establish relationships between the proposal, its…
Nagoya’s urban climate is shaped by dense development, extensive paved surfaces, humid summers and increasingly intense rainfall. Roads, car parks, concrete…
A graduation project is shaped in private, but it is judged in public. Once drawings, models, diagrams and words leave the studio, they meet visitors who bring…
A strong architecture portfolio does more than collect polished drawings. It shows how an observation became a proposition, how the proposition was tested, and…
A physical model carries information that a drawing can flatten: the depth of a cut-out, the thickness of a wall, the roughness of cardboard, and the way a…