We consider these summer “practices” or “internships” to be an important and very interesting part of the Institute’s activities. Student work, as you know, unlike other types of architectural practice, implies greater freedom and courage, as well as relaxation of all participants – accordingly, the practices help us to look at seemingly familiar tasks from a new angle, and to recharge our batteries in many respects. This year I curated one of the workshops for the first time, so I followed both the work and the presentations with great interest.

And I have to say that – although I certainly see some mistakes, weaknesses, inaccuracies, etc. – I think it is much more important that the level of work is increasing, sometimes it is amazing how students manage to do such thorough research in a short period of 1.5-2 months. Of course, we use internships to recruit future employees – some internship participants, as was done in previous years, will receive invitations for additional internships or jobs.