Vertical Studio Portfolio Review

The School has expectations about the general character, content, and quality of each graduate student’s early education as is reflected each semester and in the Portfolio Review. The School expects that each student will demonstrate: 

• A growing ability to study and manipulate spatial and material form (Stream One: Ordering Systems). 

• A growing understanding of the ways that construction techniques and materials contribute to, limit, and enable their designs (Stream Two: Construction). 

• Respect for the resources their designs would expend and for the health and character of the places in which they would build (Streams Two and Four: Human Factors and Contexts). 

• A growing knowledge of and sensitivity to the ways in which people will actually perceive, inhabit, use, and enjoy their designs (Stream Two: Human Factors). 

• A growing ability to organize their own time and effort, and when required, that of others. 

• Developing skills in externalizing their ideas, verbally and visually, for the purpose of self-critique as well as to communicate with/to others.