Application to Architecture or Design programs (undergraduate or college) Portfolio Review and Guidance Workshop with Julie Ourceau
Date: TBA
Students fee 30$
Applying to an Undergraduate Architecture program or a college Architecture/Design school? Applying to an Interior design program?
You will most likely be thinking of your portfolio and have common questions:
- Which pieces to include?
- How to show your best creative side?
- How to convince with your portfolio that you should be admitted to your program of choice?
This workshop will offer guidance and review of the portfolio, and answer questions you have on how to select artwork for the entrance portfolio.
Bring your sketchbooks, sketches, art work, photographs of sculptures and all ideas you plan on presenting.
During the workshop, Julie will review, consider, and offer a professional perspective on how to best present your work to the schools.
Starting a portfolio or having a completed portfolio reviewed, all stages of tour preparation are welcomed.
Bring a notepad to take notes and directions, as well your full attention and energy.
To further develop your portfolio and receive one on one critiques, a one hour session can be booked, with a 45$ fee.
Julie Ourceau Bio:
Julie Ourceau received a Graduate Level National Diploma from l’Ecole d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine in France after having worked in Toronto with the architectural ?rm Robbie Young & Wright and graduating from Ryerson with Bachelor of Technology in Architectural Science. While in Paris, Julie worked in Paris and travelled throughout Europe studying relationships between music and architecture. These interests led her to the Faculty of Architecture at Laval University in Québec city, where she was part of the GRAP, fulfilling Ambiance Studies Research. While at Laval, Julie developed an initial enthusiasm and importance in teaching architecture studio. Other professional developments included working in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with the Dutch architecture ?rm Royal Haskoning Vietnam, as designer and project manager on a wide range of projects ranging from impact studies and township developments to cultural and hospitality projects. Common characteristics and focal points in these projects were multicultural, sustainable, energy conscious and positive social as well as environmental impacts during and after their realization. Julie returned to Toronto in 2005, working as a designer on various projects in Toronto and its surroundings, and as a traditional musician.
Her teaching focus has been the design studio, including the communication and theory of architecture. Working in pencil, pen/ink, watercolour and charcoal, Julie has recently enjoyed drawing orthographic projections, specifically city plans and abstract interpretations of cities, their growth and dependence of water ways.