Gdańsk, Poland

Architecture

Architektura

Master's
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Architecture

⇑Architecture at PG

Language: Polish and EnglishStudies in Polish and EnglishStudies in Polish and English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: pg.edu.pl/en/university

⇑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 true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.
Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats (1918) Ch. 10 : A Roman Temple
Architecture
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the ærial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of History.
Architecture
It was stated, * * * that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:—the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.
John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Lamp of Beauty.
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