Student review [#81874] for Architecture
at KU Leuven

So my initial degree was an integrated Master’s at architectural engineering (5years). After going at KULeuven for essentially my second masters I can confidently say that every lesson is well structured other than the studios. The studios have provided the most underwhelming experience I had in my life. The proffesors provide minimal ans even poor guidance. Their method of “you decide where your design will be and for who” is simply unrealistic. There is no solid criteria or theme on the studios. It’s not even clear if the projects should be more conceptual or purely pragmatistic. When the studio doesn’t have a theme then reviews are useless because there isn’t something solid that would guide your review. In order to keep some level of consistency you need to have at least one solid parameter for your students whether that is for who or what they are designing. There was a studio where my theme changed 5 times…5 times I had to bring a different kind of building plan for a different audience. It’s even worse that student work is not rewarded. I had mentally checked out, did the bare minimum and got a 12/20 while I had classmates who went above and beyond only to get 14/20. If you want higher grades in studio specifically forget having a life. All other classes are very very well and it pains me that electives with 4 ects outshine studios so so much.