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Hi, I'm writing an essay on this career and don't know much about it. If you have any useful information, ideas, links it would be appreciated.(College level) And if you're in this occupation please let me know what it's like and what to expect from this job because I may go into architecture. Thank You
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- I am an architect, and I can tell you that it is not at all what people think. It requires a lot more creativity and passion than math skills, you have to be a very picky detail oriented person to be any good at it, and if you have any morals or pride in your work you will never make much money because you will work so hard to make great buildings. But it is very fulfilling if you love to solve problems and help people live in nicer spaces. If you are considering design of any kind, architecture is a good field to go into because school will teach you a lot, and with an architecture degree you can go into graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre set design and more! Try the American Institute of Architects for help: www.aia.org Also, I highly recommend my school, the Illinois Institute of Technology - check them out at www.iit.edu
- architecture is dying. architecture schools teach theory and materials,lofty notions of color and decadent shapes improve the world; but this is all false. the death begins at school. when i went they preferred the raw idea and a crafty sleak architecture board to reality. they tell everyone that architecture is a greasy hair-cut with $500 italian sunglasses when its really a deodorent spray and sweat. see theory mostly stems from the modern of which only seaks to fullfill itself. classical architecture was a hope for more. a hope for a society to exist for the people to last forever ... the imortal. now architecture is a pissing game with buildings not built for reasons not forever, but to get on a cover of a magazine, never mind that its made of cheap materials costing the people in it thousands of dollars a year having to be re-built every year. architecture was a hope, a beautiful dream. now its a lumbering cow with walmarts and venturi. in my state to be an architect you do not need an architecture degree, and archi-engineering one.
