Do You Want To Be An Architect?

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n true ‘Life of an Architect’ fashion, I am just going to talk from my perspective. That doesn’t mean I’m not taking it seriously, it’s just that this is a question – or series of questions – that I have answered again and again and again and again (and again and again …). It takes a lot of commitment and desire to become an architect. For starters, the amount of education needed is considerable. Assuming you actually want to become licensed, you either have to graduate with a 5 year professional degree in architecture (which few people actually do in a 5 year time period), graduate from a 4+2 architecture program (you will graduate with a 4 year non-professional degree in architecture and a masters degree in architecture). You can also have a 4 year undergraduate degree in another area of study, and then you’ll have to enter into a master’s degree program for a minimum of 3 years. Where your education is concerned, depending on the path you choose, that is either 5, 6 or 7 years worth of higher education – and you are just getting started. I will take a paragraph here to briefly talk about architecture school and it’s own set of rigors and requirements. I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (thank you, thank you … please, take your seats) and I came out of school 6 years after I entered with 206 credit hours. Part of the delay was that I spent time studying in Europe on semester and couldn’t load up on hours, and I had to work during the summer for spending money so I couldn’t take the time to get some entry level classes out of the way during the summertime. I was also in the band for 3 years and that didn’t help matters either. At one point, my friends told me that they stopped asking me to do things because I always told them I couldn’t and that I had work to do up at studio. The architecture students had their own key to get into the

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