MANIFESTO:

AR-critique is an architectural review and critiquing community that engages with portfolio and academic design thesis reviews. It builds on the idea of guiding and ushering aspiring architects into finding the appropriate professional and academic direction.

With an innovative format of online ‘CRIT ROOMS’ we would foster a critical thinking environment with focused analysis and assessment.  This would assist in aligning the future of a young student or professional across all architectural communities irrespective of location.

Our team consists of a network of professionals who have been engaged in critiquing, reviewing and assessing projects and portfolios over two decades with diverse international exposure in both pedagogy and architectural practice.

 

REVIEW FORMATS:

Open Room online review format will have 4-6 shortlisted participants. It will be in a webinar format with 100 people and broadcast live on our AR.critique youtube channel.  These would be held bi-weekly and would discuss undergraduate thesis; master’s thesis; portfolio’s for master’s students; portfolio’s for internship.  There will be 3 jurors – 1 internal and 2 external for these interactions and the session will be for approximately 2 hours with each student receiving 20-30 minutes including the jury comments.

 

Closed Room online review format will have 4-6 participants.  It will be in a webinar format with the participants and 2 internal jurors. The closed room online review sessions will be in 2 hour slots and will be held on the alternate Saturday of the Open Room review. These would discuss undergraduate thesis; master’s thesis; portfolio’s for master’s students; portfolio’s for internship.  The session will be for approximately 2 hours with each student receiving 20-30 minutes including the jury comments.

 

One on One online review format will have 1 participant with 2 internal jurors.  The session will be in 40-50 minutes slot on Zoom and will be held on the alternate Saturday of the Open Room review. These would discuss undergraduate thesis projects; master’s thesis projects; portfolios for master’s students; portfolios for internship.  This session will have a nominal fee.

 

TEAM:

Shantanu Poredi | Manisha Agarwal | Sudipta Iyer | Sanket Kamdar | Nilay Shah