In a world of challenges where
sustainability and climate emergency is
really at stake, designing new cities and
re-designing, re-thinking our cities and
our buildings is really, really important.
Curtin is a fantastic choice to study
architecture. We are actually well-known
to have highly technical students as
well as those students and graduates who are critical-thinkers and problem-solvers.
Curtin had a more technical
hands-on curriculum based heavily on
design, innovation and real-world
application, which really drew my
interest. Curtin has a great relationship
with a number of the practices. They're
getting real-life experience.
Hassell is one of our privilege partners.
They constantly support us in co-designing our briefs, participating in
our lectures, we have workshops with them, we organise site visits with them.
Hassell opened up a studio space in the
city for students to come in and
interact with employees. That was a
really great opportunity to see how
people worked in the real-life
environment. They're actually dealing
with really interesting challenging
projects but they're real. I won the
Hassell Graduate Prize and so that led me
to have the opportunity to have a job
interview at Hassell, and I was offered a
position here straight out. We have
internship programs in Singapore, in
Vietnam, in Italy, so there is a very
large range of opportunities to engage
in different regions of the world.
I actually worked overseas in Rotterdam
for a small firm for a six-month
internship that really gave me insights
into the inner workings of the office
and see how that plays about in the
built environment, which is really
interesting. I would highly recommend
studying architecture at Curtin because
of the industry connections, the
hands-on curriculum and they're
fantastic tutors. Architecture plays a
very important role more than ever. We
can actually make a difference. Good
architecture could actually bring joy
and happiness.
