External Examiner's visit

19 June 2013: We had the visit of our External Examiner, Christian Male, from Ian Simpson Architects. The exhibition is up and looking good, and we had all our STB students present, plus a few from the M.Arch Design course who had good stuff on the wall that needed explaining.




Jiajing and Putri explain their designs to Christian.




Christian sits with the MArch STB students and goes through portfolios. Douglas is showing his.



Now, Vivek's portfolio.



Now, Adri's portfolio.

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This is Christian's last year in the role of External Examiner - he has done it for four years, very conscientiously, and has provided us with some good ideas, support and stability. We have interviewed someone for the position for the next 4 years who we hope will be as good. 

Panorama of Exhibition 2013

19 June 2013: Here's a panorama of the exhibition and we await the arrival of our external examiner, Christian Male from Ian Simpson Architects. This is his fourth year of visiting.

On the left is our first semester work, and Phil has made a single A0 poster for each project. On the right, we have every scheme on display, and every student has been given a space to fill to the edge with good stuff! Models are everywhere, on the desks and on the upper shelves.

External Examiner visits

20 June 2012: We are lucky to have architect Christian Male of Ian Simpson Architects visiting us as external examiner. ISA is one of the leading British practices for tall building design, although they are perhaps more glassy than we would do in our TB Studio - but they are operating in the real world. ISA are famous for the Beetham Tower (Manchester Hilton) with a magnificent house for Ian on very top deck.
     They are also architects for the yet-to-be-built Blackfriars Tower, which some are likely to call the Shampoo bottle.  We have used that site in previous TB Studio design work. It is an excellent site, with connections to the Thames, the Underground, a south aspect and close walking to the Tate Modern. We didn't use it this year because we wanted to try the larger and more challenging Elephant and Castle site.
    Christian fully understands our aims and philosophy and always has an enjoyable day of interviews with the tutors and with the STB students.

 Group photo of STB students with Christian, during the interviews. (Janet Jing Huang is in China)

 Christian looking at Pelin and Soni's Singapore project.

Pelin explaining the Singapore project to the external examiner.

After he had the first meeting with us, lunch with other examiners, meeting with the students, and a final meeting with Phil, DNC and Robin Wilson, Christian returned to London. We await his report.