Alt-IT
Retrofiting Reviews
Reviews:
Foundation Studio - Adam Fure
Cancel Studio Build Culture Studio - Anya Sirota & Thom Moran
During the COVID-19 pandemic, while developing my media infrastructure methodologies, we explored adapting these techniques to online reviews. Collaborating with various faculty members, we reimagined the content produced by studios to thrive in an engaging online format, creating a vibrant celebration of digital work instead of attempting to mimic traditional in-person architecture critiques. This process revealed that both the presentation style and the students' creations needed to reflect the current digital interaction phenomena induced by the pandemic.
In Foundation review with Adam Fure, we guided students to develop models centered around a single camera path, enabling us to conduct flythrough animations of their work during the review, with faculty digitally embedded within these flythroughs. This approach fundamentally altered the nature of architectural reviews, traditionally unchanged for over a century, where students present to jurors who then critique the work. By reframing the review as a collective journey through student models, the discussion shifted from individual aesthetic or formal critiques to a more cohesive dialogue about the ideas presented by the entire class. This format fostered a deeper conversation about the collective state of the work.
These experiments, extended into other classes and reviews, led to the exploration of new formats such as game streaming and multiplayer world reviews, further challenging and expanding the traditional boundaries of architectural critique.
Foundation Studio - Adam Fure
Cancel Studio Build Culture Studio - Anya Sirota & Thom Moran
During the COVID-19 pandemic, while developing my media infrastructure methodologies, we explored adapting these techniques to online reviews. Collaborating with various faculty members, we reimagined the content produced by studios to thrive in an engaging online format, creating a vibrant celebration of digital work instead of attempting to mimic traditional in-person architecture critiques. This process revealed that both the presentation style and the students' creations needed to reflect the current digital interaction phenomena induced by the pandemic.
In Foundation review with Adam Fure, we guided students to develop models centered around a single camera path, enabling us to conduct flythrough animations of their work during the review, with faculty digitally embedded within these flythroughs. This approach fundamentally altered the nature of architectural reviews, traditionally unchanged for over a century, where students present to jurors who then critique the work. By reframing the review as a collective journey through student models, the discussion shifted from individual aesthetic or formal critiques to a more cohesive dialogue about the ideas presented by the entire class. This format fostered a deeper conversation about the collective state of the work.
These experiments, extended into other classes and reviews, led to the exploration of new formats such as game streaming and multiplayer world reviews, further challenging and expanding the traditional boundaries of architectural critique.