30 Years Festival: BIG CRIT
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“it is an opportunity to publicly celebrate the students’ work” (RGU, 2019)
In its eleventh year The Big Crit is the established end of year event for the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment. Organised by a team of fifth year architecture students and lecturer Gillian Wishart, it is an opportunity to publicly celebrate the students’ work. The day-long discussion sees students from all stages present a range of projects to open a platform for debate. This year’s panel of architectural critics included Professor Neil Gillespie, Professor Alan Dunlop, Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Akiko Kobayashi, Pascal Flammer, and Brian MacKay-Lyons.
work, giving positive and constructive feedback to develop and take their projects forward. Throughout the day lively discussions were formed around numerous topics, from small creative spaces and healthcare design, to large scale masterplans. Once presentations were over everyone was brought together, as the guest critics gave their closing remarks, all highly commended the event as inspiring and engaging. The day was rounded off perfectly with drinks at the opening of the final year degree show and we hope the successes of the event continue for many years to come.
The event provided a fantastic opportunity to see the range of work undertaken from all stages and explore some of the design, construction and social issues tackled. The critics were largely impressed by the students
Sam Kerr