Would tours/shadowing be helpful to a hs student?

Tzar
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:06:45 +0000

hmmmm- I think this is a tricky topic- mainly because there are a lot of architecture firms out there which I personally find boring and make architecture into something that mundane and ordinary. I have visited one of them and I know that if I had been exposed to architecture in that way as a preliminary exposure, I wouldn’t have gone any farther. I think that the best way to see if you want to study architecture is to visit a school and sit in on a class or sit in on a crit, then to research architects of the past/ theory/ ancient architecture- then to look at the things that someone like Ricardo Scofidio is doing- and finally to find a firm which does interesting work and visit them.---- If you do the latter( going to an ordinary firm) you will almost certainly be disinterested and disappointed.