At Bryden Wood, we hope our housing design app, PRiSM, will help to form part of the solution.. Our problem as an industry is simple enough to understand; it stretches beyond residential architecture into other social infrastructure sectors as well.
This is a new initiative set up by Westminster, which involves older students helping teach the younger ones.I assisted in sketching workshops, tutorials, formal reviews as well as crits and certain presentations for year 1 undergraduate architecture and interior architecture students.
As a result of my experience, I have on two occasions since graduating been asked to help out at crits as part of the panel.I really enjoy the experience and am very grateful to be given the opportunity to attend.Even though I am there to help the students, I don't think it is only about them benefiting from the experience.
I believe it is hugely important for architects to stay involved in architectural education, not only in order to help tutor the next generation of architects, but also to take inspiration, ideas and thought processes from student work back into real world practice.At University we are encouraged to create provoking, abstract, sensitive, conceptual and sometimes impossible design briefs and projects, testing the limits of the designer and the possibilities of architecture; skills that should never be forgotten.. BW: What and who does a crit typically involve?.
M: A crit involves the students individually presenting their design work project to a panel of critics.
The panel is typically made up of their tutors, visiting tutors from either the same university or another one, external academics, recent graduates and other external people working in or somehow involved in design, architecture or the built environment.Suppliers should invest in automated, digital payment and contracting systems and processes.
Digitisation will improve transparency, information exchange, payment performance and contract management across the supply chain.Standard components and digital tools - the construction Platforms ‘ecosystem’.
The underpinnings of a potential marketplace are set out in the Playbook, which states that Government:.will look to procure construction projects based on product platforms comprising of standardised and interoperable components and assemblies, the requirements for which will be part of a digital component catalogue..