Reviews of professor James Achelpohl

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Todd was a fine teacher for my first semester of architecture. He is fairly vague, however, and his feedback makes it hard for you to improve your work. He's not a harsh critic, but his grading was tough like most other studio professors (but fair). If you want a good grade, you'll have to work for it. He's not as notorious as he's made out to be.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Todd will give very unclear feedback and will contradict himself several times while critiquing a project. You essentially have to do what he wants in order to maintain a good grade, for he is not very open to new ideas. He will always point out everything wrong with what you did instead on helping you improve. Try to avoid taking him for your sake

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It may be easy to slide by with a passing grade in his class, but it's not an easy A, you have to do the work. He gives constructive feedback and will create one or two projects that other studios don't do, which is unique as the curriculum is fairly uniform across first year, and this gives a bit of an advantage to whoever takes his course.