future of architecture

cheers
Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:22:07 +0000

With average starting salaries reaching $35K+, architecture cannot compare to acting or dancing or painting or poetry–true artistic ‘starvation’ professions. The complaining is part of the school culture–“Oooh, we have to stay up sooo late!” It’s machismo bragging, nothing more. Hardly anyone needs to stay up if they don’t procrastinate–but everyone procrastinates.

Bitterness develops as architects discover they don’t have the talent to design–often a late discovery or self-awareness. Or bitterness develops when architects discover they won’t get the opportunity to design much–a fact that stems from personality or lack of business sense or lack of drive or life circumstances.

Very few architects get to design large scale buildings as pieces of ‘architecture’. That is an elusive prize–one that requires huge focus through years of practice, talent, drive and tenacity.