A Note from the Review Panel To be invited by CEPT University to be a member of the Board of Reviewers is an honor and a privilege. The 4 member panel listed below enjoyed reviewing all Level 2 and 3 studios across the faculties of Architecture, Design, Urban Design and Construction Technology as part of their overall review responsibilities. We also welcomed the additional responsibility of selecting student work that we considered to be of an excellent standard from the Monsoon 2020 semester. The Excellence Awards selection panel consisted of: Bobby Desai Archana Shah Dinesh Sharma Steve Smith
– Architect and Chair of the selection panel – Textile Designer and Entrepreneur – Product Designer – Architect and Urbanist
The Excellence Awards selection process is an independent assessment. It is not intended to assess a student’s compliance with the university’s other academic and technical requirements. Each semester the jury panel, together with the Teaching and Learning Centre, seeks to refine the assessment process in order that the best work can be rewarded. For the Monsoon 2020 semester, each Studio was asked to nominate three students for possible inclusion in the awards exhibition. The Jury panel reviewed not only all the nominations, but all student work across all studios, including work by students who had not been nominated. The objective of the Excellence Awards selection process is to select the best work on show; therefore, the principal focus of the selection panel is on assessing the clarity and quality of the presentations and project communications. The purpose of any presentation, particularly in the context of an end of semester exhibition, is to communicate with clarity, the following: • • • • •
The concept, it’s relevance and ‘raison d’etre’ The resolution of concept Key aspects of detail Key aspects of materiality/structure An evocation of the quality, character and experience of the space/object proposed and its context.
The panel looked for high production values and inventiveness in the approach to the presentations, inventiveness not for it’s own sake, but in order to better communicate the project objectives. It is how well the above objectives are met that determines if a student’s work is considered to be of an excellent standard. 8
