Personal statement plan

Personal statement plan

1. OPEN:

- Personal connection to architecture

- Specific reasons for choosing this course:beautiful architectural work Makes places/areas attractive, visualisation of buildings and finding areas for improvement

2. SUBJECT:

- Personal skills related to architecture: good at drawing realistically and detailed

- wide range of practical skills,

-Know how to use: saw machine, sanding machine, plaster casting, etc.

- Creative examples:tree house , Mini Eifel tower (planning, measuring and created with carbord, drawings of buildings)

3. WORK EXPERIENCES: transferable skills linking back to course

Sales assistant:

customer service,

problem solving,

Being patient

Disciplined

Security officer:

Self-management

Adapting new skills

Care assistant:

Took work experience at care homes for the elderly - looked after elderly people/ helped them with their everyday lives.

helped them physically and emotionally.

Pharmacist:

Customer service: measuring supplements and providing customers with what they needed.

Stock assistant/customer assistant:

Time management

4. INTERESTS:

Gallery visits: Tate Britain: Sarah Lukas

-I found her work was displeasing because it does over-sexualise women

-I couldnt find the purpose behind her work

The national Gallery (London):

-10th-16th Century French Religious paintings

The Pharaoh Museum (Germany):

-Pharaoh gallery

- ancient Egypt

- jewellery

- lynx statues

- coffins and mummy's

- Hieroglyphics

-agyptian wall art

-I like how simple and sustainable the huts were created from ancient Egypt - made simply from sandstone, brick, and granite

Visited cathedrals:

-Germany

-France

-Italy

5. FUTURE PLANS:

- Personal ambitions in architecture

- How the course aligns with these future goals