A special thanks to Justin for this animation of current sketch design project

I hope you’ve had a Great Christmas & Happy New Year. Our office takes on TY students during the year and the model & animation below from Justin was completed in a week or so. With zero knowledge of SketchUp Read More …

#Architecture #Students #ReadingList #Design

If you’re a new Architecture student then you’ve probably had your orientation and you’re just about to start the educational process of ‘Becoming an architect’ This post is to give a few books that may help you along the way; Read More …

More excellent @SketchUp modelling by TY student

Another TY student in the week; below are two movies from his week here. You need to bear in mind this was someone that hadn’t seen Sketchup at all before he arrived on a Monday. All I gave was ‘SketchUp Read More …

New #Testimonial added to website

We spend a little time each year helping TY and Leaving Cert students (I can’t promise that I can help everyone however!) and it’s lovely when they thank you as Michaela did last week. I’ve added what she said in Read More …

TY Student #2 Caoimhe Red and Blue Chair

Following on from Jacob’s TY project on the Farnsworth House (HERE) the project I set Caoimhe was a bit of research into the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld following by a balsa modelling exercise making a reduced version Read More …

TY project by Jacob Burrill #Farnsworth House @swinfordtown

We’re in TY Work Experience season at the moment. Click HERE for the last years projects that were undertaken by Transition Year (TY) Students (15/16 yo) spending a week with us. TY is a year dossing working in the real Read More …

A day in the life of the Oxford School of Architecture 1985 (Oxford Poly as it was)

Sometimes you see something that really takes you back in time and this did it for me this morning… It probably wouldn’t make any sense unless you were there but sit back and enjoy ‘A day in the life of Read More …

Musings on an architecture education…

I got to thinking after the previous post and thought what advice I would give to any budding architecture students, so here goes: 1. Be brave; I went through the entire architecture course without pushing the boundaries on what was Read More …