Architecture School: Part 2 — Thresholds

This article is part of a series discussing and reminiscing my years in Architecture academia. These stories are substantially extracted from facts but which are also filtered with my perspective and opinion. Therefore, not everyone that went through the same process will echo my sentiments. Still, similarities will undoubtedly arise, for there is a kinship among participants who go through the same gauntlet. The first article in the series can be read here.

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One definition for a threshold would be: a strip of wood or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room. Familiar in its way, the other definition would be the magnitude or intensity that must exceed a specific reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or manifest. The latter interpretation being forceful, more poetic, in a sense.

Definitions are made in terms of expectations and indications of what to come next.

First-year architecture school, as with any degree in higher education, is an introduction. The school heads outline expectations and definitions in terms of grades, performance indicators and other miscellaneous items.