Master’s Studio by Andres Alver and Indrek Rünkla

The studio originally focused on urban design tasks has over the years included architectural, conceptual, landscape as well as planning projects. As the MA thesis topic is eventually selected by the student, the supervisors primarily have a supporting role. Relying on their experience, the supervisors can advise on how a topic becomes a task, how the research and project mutually direct one another and how various issues can be solved in practice. The actual development of the topic into a real project is always unprecedented and unique. The MA thesis is an individual sequence of peculiar problems, obstacles, transitions, findings and victories. In the studio, we attempt to think with the student, add further considerations, kick the ball slightly further or bring it back again, if necessary. We have upheld the belief in the possibility of new perspectives and the continuous change of the world.