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Columbia University in the City of New York
Master of Architecture, Architecture
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I am a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelors of Architecture with specializations in 'digital design' and 'history and theory'. Since, I have worked with a couple of architecture firms and am currently in the process of taking the architectural registration exams. I...
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Centenary College of Louisiana
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Students often struggle with synthesizing architectural movements across time periods—understanding how Gothic architecture influenced Renaissance design, or how modernism responded to 19th-century eclecticism. Another common challenge is connecting architectural styles to their historical, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts; it's easy to memorize that Art Deco emerged in the 1920s, but harder to explain why that style reflected the era's technological optimism and cultural values. Additionally, students frequently mix up similar stylistic elements across periods (Romanesque vs. Gothic arches, for example) and struggle with analyzing primary sources like architectural drawings, blueprints, and historical photographs to extract evidence about design intent and construction methods.
Rather than memorizing isolated facts about each style, focus on learning the underlying design principles—proportion, structural innovation, ornamentation, and spatial organization—that connect movements together. For example, understanding that Gothic architecture solved the problem of supporting heavy stone walls through pointed arches and flying buttresses helps you see why this innovation spread and influenced later designs. A tutor can help you build analytical frameworks that organize styles by their solutions to specific problems (load-bearing, aesthetics, materials available) rather than just dates and names, making patterns visible and retention natural.
Analyzing architecture requires reading multiple types of evidence: visual analysis of the building itself (materials, proportions, decorative elements), historical documents about its construction and purpose, and contextual information about the architect, client, and era. When writing, you should move beyond description ("the building has tall columns") to interpretation grounded in evidence ("the tall columns and classical proportions reflected the client's desire to project authority and permanence, a common strategy in 19th-century institutional architecture"). Tutors can teach you how to construct arguments that connect specific architectural features to historical claims, avoiding correlation-causation errors like assuming a style was popular simply because it emerged during a certain period.
Primary source architectural materials—blueprints, elevation drawings, photographs, and construction documents—reveal design decisions that finished buildings sometimes obscure. When analyzing these sources, consider what they show (materials, proportions, structural systems) and what they reveal about constraints (budget, available technology, site conditions) and intentions (the architect's aesthetic goals or the client's functional needs). Ask yourself: What problems was this design solving? What choices did the architect make, and what alternatives might have been possible? Tutors can guide you in developing a systematic approach to reading these sources, helping you extract meaningful evidence rather than getting lost in technical details.
Architectural styles rarely have clean start and end dates—Gothic and Renaissance overlapped for decades, and modernism emerged while Art Deco was still being built. This reflects real historical complexity: styles spread at different rates, architects worked in different traditions simultaneously, and regions developed independently. Rather than treating periodization as fixed categories, strong essays acknowledge this overlap and use it as evidence; for example, explaining why a 16th-century building blends Renaissance and Gothic elements tells you something about regional variation, the architect's training, or the client's preferences. Tutors can help you develop nuanced arguments that treat periodization as a useful organizational tool rather than a rigid system, strengthening your analytical writing.
Effective analysis requires asking why a style emerged when it did: What technologies became available? What aesthetic or philosophical values were changing? Who had the wealth and power to build, and what did they want to communicate? For instance, the rise of steel-frame skyscrapers wasn't just about engineering—it reflected industrial capitalism, urbanization, and competition for status. Similarly, brutalist architecture's raw concrete forms connected to mid-20th-century ideals about honest materials and social progress. Tutors can help you research the historical conditions surrounding a style and practice weaving that context into arguments, so your essays explain architectural choices as responses to real historical circumstances rather than presenting styles as isolated aesthetic phenomena.
Comparative analysis works best when you identify a specific design problem or question and trace how different architects solved it across time—for example, how did architects in different eras approach creating monumental entrances, or managing natural light in large interior spaces? This approach prevents vague comparisons and grounds your analysis in concrete architectural features. You might compare a Romanesque cathedral's thick walls and small windows to a Gothic cathedral's flying buttresses and large stained glass windows, then explain how each solution reflected different structural capabilities and aesthetic priorities. Tutors can teach you frameworks for organizing comparisons that reveal meaningful patterns and support historical arguments rather than producing superficial side-by-side descriptions.
Strong architectural research combines multiple source types: scholarly articles that provide historical and theoretical context, primary sources (drawings, photographs, construction documents, architect writings), and site visits or detailed visual documentation when possible. Start by identifying your research question—not just "tell me about this building" but something more specific like "how did this architect's training in Europe influence their American work?" or "what does this building's design reveal about changing attitudes toward public space?" Tutors can help you develop research strategies that move beyond surface-level facts, teaching you how to find credible sources, evaluate arguments in architectural history literature, and construct evidence-based claims that go beyond description.
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