Warsaw, Poland

Architecture

Architektura

Integrated Master's degree
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Architecture

⇑Architecture at PW Warszawa

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
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 walk past a new building in your town. What catches your attention?

2. How do you feel about drawing and sketching ideas by hand?

3. You are asked to design a small community library on a tight budget. How do you start?

4. How do you get on with mathematics and physics?

5. A tutor criticises a design you have worked on for weeks. How do you react?

6. What do you think about working with 3D modelling and design software?

7. A project requires many late hours of model-making before a deadline. How do you see it?

8. How important is sustainability to you when you think about buildings?

9. You need to work with engineers, a client and local authorities on one project. How do you feel about that?

10. What motivates you most to study 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
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.
Architecture
Behold, ye builders, demigods who made England's Walhalla [Westminster Abbey].
Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Silent Voices, No. 4, The Minster Spirits.
Architecture
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee, 1956. p. 16.
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