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
