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Posted by on May 15, 2007, 10:42 am
I am considering architecture school after an eight year career in
Academia teaching studio art. I have an MFA in sculpture. I have
chosen the school in which I am interested and have spoken to a
professor there who was very encouraging. But I would like to have
some advice on putting together the portfolio in terms of images.
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on May 15, 2007, 1:51 pm
>I am considering architecture school after an eight year career in
> Academia teaching studio art. I have an MFA in sculpture. I have
> chosen the school in which I am interested and have spoken to a
> professor there who was very encouraging. But I would like to have
> some advice on putting together the portfolio in terms of images.
I applied for one school, and got in. I did my research in advance the
discover the tastes and biases of those who would be reviewing my portfolio.
I did this by attending crits at the school a year in advance, and by
roaming the studios at all hours of the day and night and talking to anyone
who looked like they were distracted from their work. Students are very
insightful and frank about what flies with the faculty and what doesn't.
My admissions process was a questionnaire with essay questions, then a
portfolio, and then three interviews. You were invited to the interview on
the basis of the first two stages. My portfolio was entirely tailored to
getting into that program as opposed to a grab bag of work done for other
reasons: down to the choice of concept, paper, media, approach, structure
and packaging. In short, it was a design to get me into that school. There
were only four (real) drawings in it, but they were pretty good and
"architectural", a few diagrams, and some writing in support of the ideas.
Having said all that, with the background you say you have, I would imagine
that the challenge would be demonstrate conceptual, maybe even
"architectural" thinking as opposed to graphic technique or formal
competency. All sophistry aside, they aren't the same thing. We draw them
small, but the smallest building is a lot bigger than you are, and
architectural experiences are largely based on that fact. For example, in my
interview, they brought up a comment I made in an earlier questionnaire
about Saarinen's JFK terminal. I purposely avoided making any of the clichéd
remarks about the form and said that it "circulates well". They asked me
what I meant by that, and I explained that the partially symmetrical dome
overhead kept one aware of the one's position in the whole thing in a way
that a linear layout like O'Hare, or a purely symmetrical shape never could.
I used a metaphor of the fixed stars and sailors, and I could tell by their
faces at that moment that I was "in".
The other thing you might want to investigate is how they feel about mature
students. The result may also affect a successful approach.
Good Luck with it!
--
MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
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Posted by clintonG on May 15, 2007, 4:29 pm
My comments are not meant to discourage you but to inform.
If you intend to become an architect I urge you to understand that America
has become a fascist police state. You will be required to obtain a license
from fascists in he private sector who have literally bought and paid for
corrupt fascist legislators to empower members of the A.I.A. to determine
who can and who can not work in America. The point to be made is not one
that rejects the notion of education and credentialing but helpinmg others
to learn from my own experience and that of others who have come to learn
and accept that what I am explaining to you is in fact factual and relaying
the fact that licensed credentialing has indeed become fascism as a means to
control what used to be called the middle class; generally considered to be
comprised of well educated professionals.
The profession of architecture like all other "licensed" occupations has
become corrupted by fascist governance. As for your question regarding a
portfolio you could show a scrapbook of your vacation to Wally World and you
will be admitted to just about any architectural school in the jewnited
states and the friendly professor will smile in your face regardless.
It was bad when I was in school in the 80's but my nephew could not even get
into the school he wanted as an honor roll student because there are also
schools that will not admit you because they are catering to negros or
foreign interests which provide funding to the school for catering to those
who have not earned the right to be there but are given special favor. Yes,
its a matter of funding and the fact that architecture schools in the 1980's
when I graduated were already pumping out over 16,000 graduates a year and
as I understand it the numbers are greater now that students are being
discouraged to become engineers and the like due to the globalization of the
labor force from China and India being used to deconstruct our former
nation's middle class in the same way the new world odor fascists are
bringing millions of illegal Mexican aliens into the country to compensate
for the negro parasite which has refused to assimilate into the manual labor
force as the jew banking financiers expected.
Call me what you will and think of me what you will but consider its many
years of your life I am referring to and hear what is being said as it is in
your best interest to seriously consider these statements dispassionately. I
mean you don't really think the jews who control the jewnited states economy
have spent billions of dollars on the negro because they have a deep love
and respect for the people do you? You don't really think the current trend
to see Negros everywhere you look on TV, newspapers, magazines and related
medis really because they sing and dance so well is it? No, its cold hearted
economics that are at work these days as the jews build their new world odor
intended to enthrone a global capital in Jerusalem where they will seat what
the Christians call the anti-christ and they have already announced in
certain circles they intend to increas the population in what has become the
jewnited states by up to 100 million Spanish speaking cheap manual labor
providers from Mexico. You can test my numbers by going to census.gov and
observing there are ~35 million reported Negros and ~35 million reported
Hispanic "Spanish speaking" not to mention the 10-12 million illegal
Mexicans the fascists have allowed into the country to prime their North
American Union economy. You can go to the bank with this; in ten years just
about the time you are through with a master's degree and enter work as an
intern attempting to become licensed the Negro will wake up to realize there
are nearly 100 million Mexicans in the country. Hello? Are you awake yet?
Once you graduate -- assuming the societal circumstances do not prevent that
occurrence -- unless you are exceedingly talented to the extreme, the son of
an alumni member who contributes large amounts of money, the son of a
fascist who owns a firm, or literally a homo who will trade sex for work
assignments you will be compelled by law to do nothing but boring work such
as drafting toilet partitions and these days painting clouds using
PhotoShop. You will be hired on a salary thus you will be compelled to work
over-time and weekends at your expense meaning at no pay. You will likely be
offered no medical insurance unless hired by a large firm. Despite the
smiles in your face you will be the political target of every other person
in the firm hoping to become licensed.
That is the life of the "intern" who is now compelled by law to work for a
fascist employer for many years noting the employer may or may not assign
the many hundreds of hours of work tasks that the law now requires to obtain
a license from the state noting the competition within firms is grueling,
brutal and cruel as the interns all vie for those work assingments the law
now requires can only be credited when "volunteering" to work for a fascist
employer who has no obligation to assign you any work at all. No suckee
upee. No work assingment. No credit the law requires. No license. These are
the brutal facts. I would add anyone not agreeing either remains deluded as
I once was or is a damn liar of the sort I have referred to.
I hope you understand and accept this brutal description of the way it
really is and take off the rose colored glasses. And the worst part? Nobody
will explain these facts of contemporary life to you except a person like
myself who has been burned and had his work stolen by the school he attended
only to be built by favored students put on the career track and then
blackballed by emploers who will not hire because I screamed about what I am
explaining in paragraphs to follow.
So this is the final thing I wish to inform you of. IF YOU PROCEED DO NOT
ATTEND A SCHOOL THAT ALLOWS THE STAFF TO MOONLIGHT.
I am a graduate of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning --
Milwaukee. The school allows staff to moonlight. From Dean Robert
Greenstreet all the way down almost all will be pimps and thieves. Dean
Greenstreet thinks he's clever and is quoted in the newspaper calling his
theivery "from gown to town" but the fact is the thieves will assign
"conceptual" projects to the student body; work that will then be
serrepticiously taken and shopped to private sector developers and
politicians. The students will never be the wiser as the assigned projects
will be cleverly restructured to imply an entirely different context or a
make-believe site that does not tip anybody off to the actual objective
where the pimps and thieves operating the school make copies of the works
developed by the student body and shop them around as I've explained.
Sometimes of course this activity is out front and understood and everybody
gets to feel good by contributing to something. Sometimes the scope of the
assigned projects is so large this can not occur misleading the student body
to presume they are a part of something big. As a Nazi architect once said
"the devil is in the details" which is where the developers and politicians
are looking for the free design work coming from the student body and these
people operating the schools are no dummies but they are corrupt and
dishonest.
Worse yet, if you had the best proposal and an outrageously pertinent
design concept your work will be stolen and their favored student or one of
the homo interns already working will be given your work to develop and he
or she will then use that stolen work to build their career upon as you sit
around none the wiser slapping yourself in the face trying to stay awake at
four o'clock in the morning when trying to pull an all-nighter they will
impose on you several times throughout your junior and senior year during
both undergrad and master programs.
One day you will be walking somewhere and discover your proposed design was
built right under your very nose right down to the vaery nature of the
design concept shamelessly replicated by the thieves. (There is much to
learn about the tricks and pitfalls of architectural copyright starting with
the fact that you can do no work using anything the school provides -- not
even a piece of paper -- all of your work you expect to protect MUST be done
using your own resources). This type of corruption has occurred to me twice.
If I had to choose all over again and if I had the newsgroups available to
me which were not available when I made a similar decision you are now
considering and if I had a guy like me putting the cards on the table I
would recall what I once learned from one of my former mentors who
consitently reminded me to think twice and cut once.
Good luck, you are going to need luck and lots of it, as there is absolutely
no way to win a fixed game I've ever been able to learn unless somebody
decides you are the wild card they want in their deck.
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
>I am considering architecture school after an eight year career in
> Academia teaching studio art. I have an MFA in sculpture. I have
> chosen the school in which I am interested and have spoken to a
> professor there who was very encouraging. But I would like to have
> some advice on putting together the portfolio in terms of images.
>
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on May 15, 2007, 6:01 pm
I keep having to killfile Clinton wherever I go on the Usenet because of
this sort of stuff...<plonk>
> My comments are not meant to discourage you but to inform.
<snip rant>
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Posted by Warm Worm on May 15, 2007, 8:13 pm
> I keep having to killfile Clinton wherever I go on the Usenet because of
> this sort of stuff...<plonk>
>
>
discourage you but to inform.
>
> <snip rant>
Why do you feel the need to do it, or announce it right underneath
ClintonG's post if you do, though?
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