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On Saturday 24th January KSA held its first Architecture @ Kent event. The action packed day offered students\u00a0a chance to\u00a0visit the School of Architecture\u00a0and the opportunity to gain an\u00a0insight into what being a student here is like.
\nAs well as meeting fellow prospective students, those who attended were also acquainted with tutors and current students who were well equipped to answer any questions about university life at Kent.<\/p>\n
Are you Classical or are you Gothic?<\/em><\/p>\n After a refreshment break, the first workshop of the day was run by our very own Fine Artist\u00a0Patrick Crouch and\u00a0encouraged creative, artistic thinking in order to construct a tower out of a selection of relatively flimsy materials. One group amazingly managed to reach a hight of around 5m, although it did not last very long! The students then were asked to name and present their towers to a panel of tutors, who commented on their styles, structure and creative flair.<\/p>\n Then came a banquet of pizza which went down well with both students and staff, followed by a tour of the campus to visit the universities many facilities and work some of the lunch off!<\/p>\n \u00a0The afternoon session gave the students a taste of the practical design seminars they will encounter when studying architecture. They were each asked to think of a client with a specific profession, and design the ideal house for them made entirely of shipping containers. The design tutors and student ambassadors then taught about the basics of orthographic drawing (Plans, Sections and Elevations) and were on hand to assist with design queries.<\/p>\n The aim of the day was to give\u00a0each prospective student a better understanding of what an architectural\u00a0degree entails. We\u00a0hope that those who attended the event enjoyed it as much as we did, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.<\/p>\n By Edward Powe – Stage 2 BA (Hons) Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday 24th January KSA held its first Architecture @ Kent event. The action packed day offered students\u00a0a chance to\u00a0visit the School of Architecture\u00a0and the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,158264],"tags":[21339,85914,6598,21340,397,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/files\/2015\/01\/architecture-@-kent-towers.jpg\")
<\/a>The day was kicked off with a welcome from the Head of School Prof. Don Gray followed by a lecture from\u00a0Tim Brittain-Catlin concerning the differences between Classical and Gothic Architectural principles. The theme of the lecture was to pose a question to the prospective students;<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n