When you study architecture at Brighton we're conscious that we want you to find
your position within the architectural practice as you go through your career
if you walk into a really strong sense of studio culture in a community.
We've worked hard to set up the studio so they feel as though it's a place that is your
family and that you can nest within it and it is a support network.
You kind of pick up some pretty close friends and you get to know each other quite well as
a year rather than just if you want of course say we dip in for a lecture, go
home again and spend lot of time at home would spend a lot of time in the studio
together working, so I guess you sort of build a nice little community.
One of the things that we really encourage at Brighton is this idea of learning
through making and learning through doing. Our workshops and technical
facilities are integrated into our design studio.
Before I came here I didn't even know how to use a drill and now I'm making like these big models
which is really fun thanks to their technical staff it was a really great
opportunity to bring all your different skills together to create something that
not it's necessarily just a pretty building it's more about thoughtful
process and different skills that you can bring in and really show yourself off.
We've got fantastic workshop facilities with technicians who are also
designers or doing PhDs I chose only in architecture Brighton
because I think every architecture school would have this own style and
then which I found this style in Brighton is very unique so the studio
So the culture is a very important part of learning it's a place where we are
encouraging students to learn alongside each other and that starts to then mimic
what they will find when they're in practice as of course it's quite
interdisciplinary and that helps a lot because it is undergraduate still so
most people don't have a clear idea of what they want to do in the future
so it does help to give you hints how is it to work in the real world and so we
bring in a variety of different practitioners and researchers so that
you can test out different methods and ways of thinking about architecture and
spatial practice the architecture course at Brighton is very artistic or very
very creative and they really encourage you to really think outside the box all
of my projects have had some sort of materia experimentation through them it
something that I really really love and I've always been encouraged to carry on
doing more of that by lecturers by technicians
There's often a sense in an academia that the feedback is the written piece
of work but actually the really important part of feedback is that
you're constantly discussing your projects so your feedback might be when
you're having a conversation with a tutor down the corridor or it might be
sitting next to a friend who's also asked new questions about their project
I think the facilities in area was great we got kind of big studios to take care of
really big studio space. much more space can be used to make models and they're
much more materials. and also that we have brought two more 3d printers in there which is really convenient
So, the way we organize student support at
bright on university is fairly unique and it seems to work very well in this
way you can offer pastoral support, help students with their general well-being
because I'm located at local level and I'm very accessible to students so they
can just knock on the door and there's quite a lot of flexibility means that I
can work very closely with the students and the tutors
so we're I really find inspiring the fact that every lecturer has a different
background so someone has a more artistic approach they can relate to
artists lecturers that have also professional practices so it's not just academic.
Architecture is a fantastic degree to take because it brings together three different areas of thinking and that's the social sciences
it's the technology engineering, and it's the arts based practice.
Which means that the choices of the direction of travel and the pathways you take into
employment are huge and varied