Warsaw, Poland

Architecture

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Architecture

⇑Architecture at PW Warszawa

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.pw.edu.pl/engpw

⇑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
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.
Architecture
Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
Thomas Gray, A Long Story.
Architecture
A few centuries ago... the indigenous and often primitive architectural forms of that time had become suited to local climate through a long process of trial and error.
Ken Kern, The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
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