What Does Being An Architect Really Mean? Is Architecture A Great Job?

Whats great about the job is what architecture is in history, what it aspires to be in the future and most of all what the training and doing exposes one to an architect's life.

Architecture is about many things. Its about making form, story, music, and inspiration, its also about illuminating ones life with philosophy, sociology, psychology, material science, engineering, mathematics, history, construction, and in the end making something out of nothing.

These are the reasons architecture is a great job that can enrich your life.

You'll heard many complaints that the business of designing buildings, running an office and keeping an architectural firm solvent can simply be overwhelming. And this can be true.

The education of an architect prepares one to become a designer, but it may be that you simply do very little design work as an architect.

The truth is, design is really a very small part of what the architect does and unless your in a position where you can dictate that design is what you focus on most, your in for a quite a shock.

The job of an architect involves doing a lot of technical drawing and writing as well as research. It also involves an incredible amount of coordination and organization. Being an architect may also require real people skills.

The architect can work with large numbers of subcontractors and consultants and should be able to work well with other people, particularly contractors in the field. Not to mention their most important job, Managing the client.

The architect also needs to be able to manage the business and employees if They've got them. In fact all these jobs can be exactly what an architect does with no time for design at all.

This why the business of architecture can be so different from the job and in the end a bit unfulfilling.

So understand: Architecture is many things not just design.