You Can’t Solve Everything In An Architecture School Design Project. Prioritise

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  • Опубліковано 14 гру 2022
  • Kevin Hui talking with Andrew Maynard (Austin Maynard Architects) about his revelation of learning that you do not try to, not possible to and therefore not expected to solve everything in an architecture design project at university. Pick your battle and prioritise what to focus on instead.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 36

  • @kelvinahkian6389
    @kelvinahkian6389 Рік тому +17

    Two (qualified) guys on youtube giving free advice on what our lecturer should remind us at every semester. :)

  • @WelcomeToSteph
    @WelcomeToSteph Рік тому +2

    Where was this video 6 years ago?! I only had this realisation very, very recently and boy it's helped a lot!!

  • @Totallyfine29_
    @Totallyfine29_ Рік тому +3

    I definitely got carried away trying to prefect the design, and yes it caused trauma wasted time energy work, hopefully final week pass peacefully

  • @urbancolab
    @urbancolab Рік тому +4

    Spot on. I will remind this to my students. And for myself even with twenty years in practice I am still working things out in the field.

  • @nataliehughes1119
    @nataliehughes1119 Рік тому +7

    Doing the Adv Dip, I tended to think more about the working drawings in putting a design together. "Will I be able to detail this later?"
    I was always trying to solve it before completing it.
    ...naturally, I fell behind a lot 😬

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +4

      I think it's important to have some thoughts about it but it's a strategy first and making allowance than it is about solving it already

  • @dontbeabutt7786
    @dontbeabutt7786 Рік тому +1

    so spot on it's taken me 2 years to get this!

  • @lvchlvn
    @lvchlvn Рік тому +2

    Great advice, and something all students should here. Some very valuable insights, and really knowledge that extends beyond university!

  • @GRUMPNUGS
    @GRUMPNUGS Рік тому +9

    Waw, I really needed to hear this. I tend to always approach the projects with a 'I need to know absolutely everything of every mm of my proposal' mindset (which I know is stressful and hindering my potential creativity), where really it's just drawings, strategies that explain the ideas. Feel like I've just had an awakening... like a weight thrown off my shoulders. Thanks guys!

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +3

      I have been there myself. Which is why I really wanted to make this episode.

  • @dinullahibrahim399
    @dinullahibrahim399 Рік тому +1

    It took me 5 minutes to realize that’s not real fireplace, instead an imac 🧐

  • @jamzyhuh2597
    @jamzyhuh2597 Рік тому +3

    Another fantastic video. Something I just realised after completing my final assignment for B.Arch

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +2

      Lucky you. I only realised after finishing Uni

  • @tommot3809
    @tommot3809 Рік тому +3

    I wonder how you managed to become so successful so young.
    In many countries, especially the USA, is almost impossible to even get your license.

  • @syahziq95
    @syahziq95 2 місяці тому +1

    Too Awesome, Subhan-Allah ❤✨️❤✨️!

  • @arjayvico5072
    @arjayvico5072 Рік тому +1

    Amazing discussion! This is what I need :)
    Btw, I was halfway across the vid when I saw your fireplace. I thought it was real!!!! :D

  • @rebirx.gamer.x3959
    @rebirx.gamer.x3959 Місяць тому +1

    this channel is a fortune that i have found

  • @mariaramsey1772
    @mariaramsey1772 Рік тому +1

    That was inspiring

  • @deedyfenton
    @deedyfenton Рік тому +6

    Uni archi project: Fake it till you make it 😂

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +7

      I didn’t tell the story where we were told by some other students that we needed to work out everything. I was stressing about plumbing pipe gradient. My tutor was a principal of a semi well known practice of the time and he didn’t offer any help (nor did he seem to know the answer) when I asked him how certain things should be resolved. I know now what guidance I should have been given but this is challenge many students face who don’t understand the big picture. I was seeing that when I was teaching and at Archimarathon STUDIO now too.

  • @hypertectonics7009
    @hypertectonics7009 Рік тому +2

    Even if you tried, you could never solve everything because so much of a building is done by other specialties... You can only suggest the strategy.

  • @kudzaishemakweta211
    @kudzaishemakweta211 Рік тому +1

    This discussion reminds me of one studio master who would say “we don’t mark potential”…. Simply meaning solve the pertinent design issues through drawings.
    Great episode 🤝

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +2

      it's about finding that balance and knowing what needs solving and developing and other stuff not worth worrying too much about

  • @SketchyArc
    @SketchyArc Рік тому +1

    I demand that you upload this video 5 years ago, I don't care how. Past me need to watch this video.

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +1

      Past me need to watch this video and many others we made

  • @OrendaDesignStudio
    @OrendaDesignStudio Рік тому +1

    True...

  • @ashVGF
    @ashVGF Рік тому +2

    So what's the trick at a professional level post uni? Would love to hear a video on that with the same topics discussed in this video.

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +2

      Don’t design too tightly. By all means think about it but have a strategy for things to change which often do

  • @gabybordino6024
    @gabybordino6024 Рік тому +1

    Yes, great advice! You can´t solve everything and you won´t.
    Even in practice, in the design phase of a project, you don´t have everything solved at a glance. You add different levels of resolution with the different iterations.
    "The main thing is to keep the Main Thing the main thing" I think I´ve heard this somewhere ;)

  • @Simon-Simon-Simon
    @Simon-Simon-Simon Рік тому +1

    GOOD designers cut out a lot off time - time is money in the real world
    KEVIN did you do a stint at UTS late 90s

  • @Daviid-2009
    @Daviid-2009 Рік тому +1

    Challenge accepted. Consider it done ☑️

  • @Magmoormaster
    @Magmoormaster Рік тому +3

    Unfortunately this is not true at my university. I tend to get myself in trouble for not developing the design far enough, even when the backbone, or parti, is very strong. "It was too diagrammatic" is a criticism I've heard a lot.
    Some of my classmates definitely take it way further than they need to though. Designing stuff that no one sees in their presentations.

    • @Archimarathon
      @Archimarathon  Рік тому +2

      Well it’s important to also go beyond being a diagram and it’s good to think about some of those issues and address them, but that doesn’t mean everything is solved. It’s also knowing what to solve. You can see Peter’s competition stuff actually had drawings that appears to be details

  • @deezynar
    @deezynar Рік тому

    If you design using proven construction methods, you'll never get caught asking "how are we going to build this?"
    Reinventing the wheel costs your clients a fortune, increases stress on the building team, as well as the design team, and there is no certainty that the solutions invented by the designers will work. That's how architects get sued.