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As the title says, this is not a review about the show itself, but a warning for prospective architecture students.

Anthony Burke was the director and teacher at the faculty where I did my architecture degree. I have expressed multiple times about the poor quality of the course and subjective views of the teachers and total lack of real world applications the course content taught us. The course I did focused on unrealistic wild designs that could not be built in the real world, while also running a construction subject where we architecture students essentially had to self learn to be engineers, and didn't teach anything applicable like the techniques and methods shown in Grand Designs. The closest we got was learning about storing heat in the floor and gabions using thermal mass. We also didn't learn any ancient techniques or explore the various architectural design styles across the world. Finally after graduation, all work places require you to already know Archicad or Revit, neither of which were taught at the university, instead we were taught Rhino, the excuse was that we will learn Archicad and Revit on the job at work. The only think that "came true" was when he said that by the time we graduate, 3D printers will be available for individuals. Australia's architecture courses really suck, and I have since seen programs overseas. Total waste of time and money.