This article is useful if you want to become an architect, because It'll provide a clear summary of the career of an architect. It will include their daily task, required skills, education and work environment. It is helpful if you're unsure about your future career and want to learn more about the dental field. Also, this article is great for people are interested in the construction field and wants to know what it takes to become an architect. I'm motivated to to write this article because I want to help other to be informed about this profession and encourage them to explore architecture as a potential career path.
Architects work regular hours in an office with weekends off. They deal with clients who want a building for a specific usage, and they also deal with the development of a building. The job requires good communication skills, attention to details, and handling that the building is visually appealing and functional
An architect deals with the designing of homes, schools, offices, and more. Architects meet with clients, draw plans, choose the materials, and makes sure that the projects stays in the budget.
In weekdays, architects goes into the office and draw plans on their computer. They also go into meeting with the clients or engineers or the builders. Sometimes, they need to visit the construction site to check if the work is progressing according to plan.
Architects work mostly in an architecture firm. Some days they have to spend the day in the construction site to see the progress. So, they're schedule is split between the office and the construction site.
In Quebec, you have to finish high school and apply into cegep in sciences or the architecture program. After cegep, you go into university for an architecture degree which take five years.
After 5 years its estimated that an architect makes around $35 an hour, that about $76 000 a year.
The architects have to take a course every year to keep up to date on new laws, new software. If you want to specialize in a specific field, There's specialized training in areas such as sustainability, healthcare or historic preservation.
If the architect makes a mistake on the plan, it could cost a lot of money to the client and a lot of delays, so a lot of hours in a high-pressure workplace can be very stressful and burnouts often happens in that field. On the construction site, there's lot of safety hazard, such a big holes on the ground, big trucks on the move and toxic gas which explains all the rules applied in every construction site.
The answer is unlikely, while various software makes our daily jobs as architects more accurate, there's multitude of non-quantifiable aspects that humans bring to design that can't be replaced by the engineering of computers.
Most of the architects retire at around 60 to 65 years old. A lot of them continue their practice well after they retire or some become teachers.
An architect journey is a very long one, usually you graduate at the age of 27 and have to be an intern for about 2 years. I'm still in the very beginning of my journey. The career, for me, is a mix of art, science, and it is a way to shape the world around you and tit is the reason that I want to continue it this trajectory. My goal is to create something that will be in this world for a very long time, something that will represent who I am and I what I create, and that is why I want to become an architect.
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