Warbourne

How are critiques? Are they 'crushing' as some people say they are?

sashimi46

if your project is bad....yeah

don't take them personally. they're supposed to help you become a better critical thinker.

vyan2

^ there's really no good or bad...
just a matter of preference. Unless you really really really bombed it.
If a professor doesn't like, then he/she doesn't like it and well go as far as insulting your work to let you know. Like Sashimi said, don't take them personally but listen to them because they help you become a better designer. The best critiques are the worst ones. Don't let the critiques drive you away from architecture school if that's what you're scared of.

Some things to have for architecture school:
-be a good speaker, most of the time you have to talk in front of your class/audience/jurors when you're done with a project.
-learn to adapt to all nighters(no matter how early you'll start)
-learn to take insults

Tzar

critiques are just what they sound like-- critiques-- what you did well-- what you could do better-- things to think about. The good ones are simply the ones that make you think.

laurstar07

(luckily i havent gotten this critique but...) be prepared to hear things like "why are you in architecture? do you even care about this major? do you really want to do this?" keep in mind that those kinds of comments are kind of rare.

but what you need to get used to is them telling you to redo your entire project - even if that makes you essentially 2 weeks behind the rest of the class - in 2 days

learn to be able to explain why you did things. even if there is a project where everyone practically has the same thing, you have to know how to make your project sound unique. basically...you'll become great at the art of bsing lol

remember this: when they stop criticizing you, it means they have stopped caring and lost hope

larationalist

The only bad critiques are when they outright say that you are wasting their time, or when they just say "This looks fine." Absolutely anything else is a critique that you can learn from, which is the point. I've had prominent architects sit and practically yell at each other over my work (one even basically accused me of torturing high school students), and loved every minute, because at least it got a reaction.

laurstar's right, architects are like ballerinas: if they bother to critique you, it means they believe you capable of improvement.