Architecture students — stop trying to please your studio professor — seek to learn from them

There's this bizarre phenomenon in schools of architecture where students become disproportionately preoccupied with pleasing their studio instructors. Let me qualify that — some students seem more concerned with whether or not their professor will like their work instead of what they will learn from them.

These are two entirely different postures toward the classroom. An instructor is there to mentor the student, to help them grow and become a better designer. An instructor isn't a client, or someone's mommy or daddy, they are merely an individual with more experience and knowledge with a responsibility to impart some of that knowledge to a group of students.

Previously on Archinect: Balancing Studio With Other Classes

That's the key point here — this isn't any group of people one teaches, but rather a group of students. We all know the saying: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Students: if you don't see yourself as a student, school is going to be a drag. In stu...

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