Marty and the gang at Geekhouse were asked to sit in on a crit at Wentworth's Architecture Department. The studio was designing a Boston-based bicycle manufacturing facility and asked Geekhouse to be the local experts and to critique the student's work. .
After a short slideshow, the students displayed their projects and opened their architectural intent up for discussion with Marty.
After completing a 5-year program and graduating with a Bachelor's in Architecture, I never want to sit through another formal critique again. Brings back memories for sure. Everyone looked well-prepared with parti models, diagrams, models and material studies. Check out the full set here.
Comments
There were a lot of great concepts. I have a lot of friends in the architecture department here. Fortunately I spend my time at the south end of the design building.
Posted by: Lowell | December 8, 2009 1:19 PM
I actually my model of the building that I designed for Geekhouse. It was a great project to design a manufacturing facility for geekhouse.
Posted by: Fernando | December 8, 2009 8:42 PM
Great work!
Funny, none of them look like that old brick building on the tracks in Somerville where the Merlin guys used to weld back in the day ... Brings flashbacks of an MIT studio to design a factory for Merlin on the Allston truck parking site next to Genzyme back in '92. Fernando Domeyko and Ron Eng (TA) up in the old Maurice Smith / Herman Hertzberger loft studio (RIP). Hope the Geekhouse guys can keep it up and best wishes to all the architecture school students!
Posted by: wade | December 11, 2009 1:00 PM
that first sentence is very misleading.
when you write for a bike blog, you probably shouldn't use the word "crit" to mean critique, especially in an opening sentence.
unless you don't know what i crit is, in which case you have lost some credibility in my book.
thx!
Posted by: GRH | December 12, 2009 10:10 PM
This is so awesome to see, I'm a first year WIT Arch. Student and Cyclist, and It sweet to see my school on one of my favorite blogs.
Posted by: Brian | January 7, 2010 12:54 AM