13 October 2026 · 1 min read
Is there a formula for the creative process? Can innovation be guaranteed?
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13 October 2026
You only get 5–6 studios. Will they make you job-ready?
You only have three years in an architecture degree, and you only get five or six studios. What will you have learnt by the end, and is it professionally aligned? I can tell you that after only three years, we consider any architecture student useless in practice. Even after a master's, I dare say graduates are not professionally aligned.
13 October 2026
Is an architecture degree too academic to prepare you for a job?
An architecture degree is far too academic to be directly useful in a job. Think about who is teaching you: are your teachers professional design architects? Design is notoriously hard to teach, and very few teachers have both the professional design experience and the ability to teach it.
13 October 2026
101 Things You Wish You Learnt in Architecture: Planning
If there's one skill an architect needs, it's planning. And yet, who ever taught you to do it? Actual planning? You will be forgiven for thinking you know it as a student, because the skill set as a whole is not being taught to you.