Pinch Me it's Time To Present

Wednesday was our final critique for our projects. We spent the previous week building models and preparing drawings to show a panel of four critics. Well I was able to finish a day early and took the entire day tuesday to just really refine everything and make sure my presentation was in the order I wanted to present it. So we get to presentation day. As a group we presented our plan for the urban design of our project. This entails how our project reacts and how the urban technique we employed was fulfilled on the site. This was presented to all 10 critics and they weren't too pleased with our scheme because they said that it didn't look like we carried it out intentionally. So the presentations proceeded from there and they all went alright. No ones went bad but no one had a great one either. Needless to say I was nervous. I had not had a good critique in a long time and especially since my teacher and I had been butting heads the whole semester nervous was an understatement. I pulled myself together and presented like a champ. One of the best performances I have put up in a while. But then it happened. I needed to pinch myself. Roger one of the tough critics says "Your project is quite interesting, it works, and I really like it." I almost passed out. I half expected to hear my name being called and the other students trying to wake me up telling me it was my turn to present. But it was real! They loved my project and told me that they had to find something wrong with it just so I wouldn't get too excited. Well it was too late for that I was beaming and I don't think I've stopped yet.

Then at night we went over to café Bilder Buch for our reception. It was like the series finale of a sitcom. All of the old characters get to come back for one final hurrah. Most of our tour guides from the semester were there, all of the critics we had and local architects we met, researched or had any contact with during the semester. I spoke to my teacher and thanked her for kicking my ass the whole semester and told her how appreciative I was. Then I spoke to Roger for a while and got his individual take on my project. It was a nice evening and we had a lot of fun and were very glad to be done with semester and of course excited to return home on Saturday