Łódź, Poland

Architecture

Master's
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Architecture

⇑Architecture at PŁ

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.p.lodz.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Architecture the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You’re designing a public building on a tight city plot, and residents, the client and planners all want different things. How do you work?

2. How do you approach sustainability in your designs?

3. Your team has a week left before a design competition deadline. How do you handle it?

4. At a design review, the jury criticises your concept harshly. How do you react?

5. The programme is taught in English, in a studio with students who trained in different countries and architectural traditions. How do you see that?

6. You need to coordinate your design with structural and building services engineers. How do you approach it?

7. You’re asked to convert an old industrial building into a cultural centre. How do you feel about that?

8. How do you feel about parametric design and BIM tools?

9. Your thesis could include a written research component on architectural theory. What’s your reaction?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Architecture?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Architecture
Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
Architecture
Architecture differs from a work of art, which can be displayed in different settings and the subject-matter, form and meaning will remain unchanged. The physicality of any built structure can be altered over time as additions and alterations are made. Moreover, a building or work of architecture can change its function as it meets the different demands of its occupants, although its exterior appearance may be unaltered. And its meaning may change depending on the nature of the context. This reveals some of the problems of interpreting historic architecture from a modern-day perspective as the physical changes and different cultural contexts transform the object.
Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?
Architecture
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 2, line 25.
Architecture
The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity:
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Problem.
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