Tulane Students Star In Reality TV Show

A group of college students will be hitting the small screen today as part of a new reality TV series.
 

But surprise! The show won’t feature drinking and relationship drama.
 

Tonight “Architecture School” debuts as a six-part series on the Sundance Channel. The documentary follows a group of Tulane architecture students as they design and build a single-family house for a sale in a Katrina-damaged neighborhood.
 

The New York Times explains:

The students themselves ultimately vote on which plan to pursue. They settle on an S-shaped building designed by Adriana Camacho, a lively student from Trinidad who seeks to bring a West Indies sensibility to her design: an airy, tropical openness.

Over the next several weeks the students become a construction crew, pounding shovels into the ground, wielding hammers and saws, pouring cement — “I’m excited for the concrete,” one says. They learn how to make a cantilever, how to configure windows that open and shut, which direction is best for bending corrugated metal. The hands-on work is integral to this “design/build” course, so that students get direct experience with the execution of their ideas.
 

Overall the show sounds a lot every other Flip That Design Star Handyman Challenge type show, but with college students. But that small change makes all the difference because everyone knows there’s nothing sexier than attractive young people screwing nailing building together.