UC Berkeley , Cal Poly SLO Pomona, USC , UCLA

vyan
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:26:04 +0000

whats more beneficial? you ask yourself. you want to go through a 4 year + grad program ?
or just go with a B.arch and that’s it? Which program is better? well…is picasso better than Van Gogh?

i don’t know, it’s personal preference.

It is hard to judge which art school is better. Just look at the resources, faculty members, what they teach, what kind of opportunities that they offer, the location, etc. (I know, all the basic stuff, right?) and make your decision base from that. It’s a bias conclusion, cause I mean, I’ll probably say UCLA owns all the schools, I don’t know about Berkeley though. I would have gone to Berkeley because it was closer to home.

and to answer your question, well crap…we’re not force to do anything really. It’s not like we came in and the faculty said, “alright punk b!tChe$, your life is gone”. It’s really based on your work ethics. If you want to do only average work, then do average work and go hang out. If you want to do a superb job, then stay at the studio, forget the parties, the work-outs, whatever you do on a daily basis or what pleasures you and just stay at the studio and work your butt off. What distinguishes a superb architect student from a normal student is in their work, and that only comes from how much you sacrifice.

the goods: great faculty members, thomas mayne,neil denari, new chair director: hitoshi abe, and many more. many prestigious architects around the area to intern for, um, good work-shop for modeling, what else…just UCLA i suppose, oh, um great classes, a lot of digital work using Rhino 4.0,illustrator, photoshop, etc. We have happy hours on wednesdays where grad studnets and undergrad students hang out in the architect’s building quad and bbq + beer. we’re the only department on campus that has a license to distribute alcohol. Very VERY nice lectures, guest lecturers ranging from prestigious architects to Nike Designers, and etc.

the bad: very artsy, just too artsy in my opinion, but ample teaching to gear yourself to starchitect level. the undergrad department isn’t fully developed, but the grad program is.

Cal has a very nice architecture building. their studio is sick. Tell Mr.Ellis i said ucla rocks.