<p>Post your school choices–and the city or cities you’d most like to work in when you graduate.</p>
<p>From that list, we will be able to say whether or not your non-art background will hurt or help your application.</p>
<p>In the meantime, you live in Houston. You ought to call UHouston and ask about sitting in on a few of their Summer Discovery Program juries. <a href=“Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston - University of Houston”>Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston - University of Houston; . I’d tell you to wait until fall to sit in on some at Rice too–but I think that may be too late for you to revise your application process.</p>
<p>When you see the way architectural student work is assessed, you will understand why art courses, and poetry courses, are important to successful design learning. Watching those critiques, you will understand why admissions committees look for artistic and conceptual talent in their new students–over and above technical talent.</p>
<p>Architecture does have a number of technical aspects–but qualified engineers assist architects with the majority of those tasks.</p>