Post Review, review...

Day after my final studio review and all I feel is numbness.

I learn something from every studio. Each time I get up there and present my work I'm always nervous and just want to get it over with. I often feel disappointed and the event is always anti-climatic. I spend so much time trying to develop my ideas over the course of ten weeks and I never get to the point where I hit that home run at the final review.

This time around the reviewers were stiff and very critical. Getting feedback about my work is important to me and it helps me learn how to take my ideas further. Yesterday on the other hand was not helpful and really just felt like a bashing. It was if the reviewers were tired from the their days work and just didn't have the patients to explore my concept further. It didn't help that I printed at too small of a scale for a large presentation. I had a strong concept and presented my project well but the inability to read the details of my drawings became the failing point. The focus dwell ed on the scale of my drawings and never really moved on to talking about my design ideas.

If I could do it again, I would print my drawings at twice the size and show more of my process. I ran out of time so I didn't have nice perspective renderings which also became problematic to reviewers as they had to use their imagination to picture what I was showing in plan, section, elevation, and verbal description.

I get more from the process throughout the term than I do from my final reviews. Some terms I have very nice renderings but my building design is too simple. Or I spend all my time developing my program and how pieces work but can't get the renderings done. Some terms I have time to build a really nice physical model but the reviewers don't bother looking or talking about it. It's very frustrating to work so hard and not have a satisfying review.

With that said, its over and done with. The important thing for me is to take away the lessons learned and thoughtfully apply them to my future work.

Two more terms to go!