Part 3

Posted mainly as a gift to my friend Rob S, but also as an offering to any architecture students who happen to Google for <google>RIBA Part 3 Management Papers</google>, I give you <a href=“http://rob.annable.co.uk/docs/management_paper.pdf”>my own paper from last year's exam</a> (PDF link).

<ul> <li>Warning A: If you are not an architecture student taking your part 3 exam, this will not be of any interest, move on.</li> <br> <li>Warning B: If you are an architecture student and you choose to use it as inspiration, be sure to make a decision about whether or not humour has a place in an exam that will be the culmination of 7 years of study.</li> </ul>

My paper flies dangerously close to the sun in terms of its funny/straight ratio. I got lucky; my examiner had a sense of humour and he enjoyed it. Yours may not, in which case your wings will quickly melt during the final interview. I'd been reading <luckygoogle>Arthur Koestler</luckygoogle> at the time and he reassured me that wit was a conduit for creative thinking. He's dead right, I got a good mark.