A letter from this Year’s Graduating Class at Ariel University’s School of Architecture:

 

The five years of study we are now completing at Ariel University’s School of Architecture have changed our lives forever.

Our student experience was far more intense than the mere pressures of all-nighters building models. We gained powerful insights into life itself, through deep friendships developed by working on projects together and by learning to see the world with new lenses.

 

We learned about moral responsibility – for urbanism, ecology, functioning-spaces, place in the world, and more. We know now that as architects we must be committed to creating a better environment, inspired by communal values and ethics.

 

"Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces. It is the creating of spaces that evoke a feeling of appropriate use." —Louis I. Kahn

 

Our excellent and devoted teachers guided us on this path towards self-discovery and self-fulfillment. They demanded of us originality, creativity, and excellence. They insisted upon care for the other and for our surroundings in all our work. They taught us that the desire to create a better world should be our main motivation.

For this, we are enormously grateful.

 

Today, we are venturing forth on a new path, a day which we were preparing and yearning for a long time, and today we are proud to stand here, together.

We've got a great set of tools and values, and it is finally time to embark on a new journey, we know there's still a long way to go... but we're ready to get on our way and jump into the hot water...!

Future Architects are coming to change the world... Wish us luck..!

 

Our exhibition portrays the journey we have done in our last and final year of school. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Class of 2017

 

Written by Yonina Weinberg-Cohen

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