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Why Architecture Studio Feels So Hard.
It's not you.
Here's what's actually missing - and what to do about it.
The Problem
You're completing tasks - site analysis, concept development, drawings, models - but nothing connects. Each week feels like starting from scratch.
Your site analysis doesn't inform your concept. Your concept doesn't drive spatial decisions. Your materials feel arbitrary. Experience is never considered. Nothing builds cumulatively.
Tutors give abstract feedback: "push your concept further," "respond to the site better," "consider human experience." But they don't show you how. No process. No clear steps. No way to actually do what they're asking.
You work blind, hoping something clicks. Sometimes it does - but you can't replicate that success because you don't know why it worked.
This isn't your failure. School teaches you fragments without showing you how they connect.
The Gap
Here's why it happens.
School teaches five separate streams - Design, Communication, Construction, History + Theory, and Practice. Complete each one. Move to the next. Nothing connects.
Professional practice works sequentially - Design, Document, Build - delivering buildings within the constraints of budget, compliance, and client requirements.
But architecture works differently.
Context Concept Experience | Integration - existing conditions informing a central concept, which shapes the final human experience, with all three continuously connecting and refining each other through spiral iteration.
Change one decision and everything else shifts. Site constraints reshape your concept. Concept drives spatial experience. Experience requirements determine materials. Materials influence buildability. Buildability constraints loop back to concept.
School teaches fragments. Practice teaches process. Neither teaches you how architecture actually works.
That's the gap. And it's not your fault - it's a gap in education.
The Solution
Understanding all three - school frameworks, practice process, and how architecture actually works - is what separates students who thrive from those working blind.
That's what ArchiMash teaches. The frameworks, steps, and ways of thinking to connect Context, Concept, and Experience into deliberate, considered architecture.
Not a prescribed system. Not one right answer. Tools, thinking, and process - so you can find your own.
Where To Start
Five interconnected areas.
Start anywhere - everything connects.
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