When You are an Architect

24 Jan 2012 Leave a comment

by mydailyboost in Daily Dose of Architecture Tags: ,

Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love being an Architect. I really can’t imagine doing anything else. Actually, I can’t imagine “being” anything else. It becomes more than a profession. It becomes part of the definition of who I am. But, no one really told me it would change every aspect of my perception of the world.

When you’re an Architect:

  • You won’t be able to afford your own taste
  • You’ll notice everything that is even slightly out of alignment
  • You’ll never look at a building without “reading” the architecture. You’ll only analyze a space, you won’t just experience it. You’ll be a bystander…
  • You’ll be endlessly fascinated with natural light and shadows
  • You won’t be able to let anything go, your brain will spin, you won’t sleep
  • You won’t be able to talk to anyone about what you do. No one will know what an Architect does
  • You’ll be weary and content at the same time
  • Your back will hurt
  • You’ll be less respected than you thought
  • Your shyness will be interpreted as arrogance
  • You’ll be working on your craft for years, you’ll never feel like you’ve mastered it, but you’ll keep at it, everyday, again, again
  • You’ll remember every single thing you did wrong on a project, and that will keep you from seeing everything you did right
  • You’ll want to put everything in order, always… But, you may choose not to do that
  • When you’re young, your heroes will be irrelevant. You’ll figure that out when you get older
  • You’ll know a lot less about construction than you thought you would
  • You’ll mark the milestones in your life by the projects you were working on at the time
  • You’ll come to know a little about everything, you’ll know a lot about just a few things
  • You’ll begin to see the built environment as a continuously evolving form, built piece by piece by generations of individual efforts. You’ll begin to see balance between individuality and community
  • You’ll often have an opportunity to be the center of attention, but, you won’t know how to take advantage of that
  • You will be interesting….eventually
Architecture – The art and science of design and erecting buildings and other physical structures.
 
 

 JOANNE

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