10 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU ARE STUDENT OF ARCHITECTURE

1. Build Confidence

This will help you face any difficulty and make you go through the tough time(jury) or dealing with client and work pressure but still putting up the best with confidence.

2.Build Contacts

Build contacts in industry or otherwise so that once you are out as an architect you will be having many opportunities handy.

3.Have a mentor/or be one

Having a mentor just makes one aware of things before it happens,if you don’t have one ,be one

4. Don’t just treat it as a SUBJECT

BUILDING MATERIAL ,ERGONOMETRY , BUILDING SERVICES,etc are important subjects apart from design,give this necessary importance and learn about it in advance before coming in the market.Ask questions to these subject teacher about practical application of these topics and will make lot of sense.

5.Do Internships from 2nd and 3rd year itself.

While studying in college ,we tend to live in a bubble,"we will see when we reach there" attitude is not gonna work if you don’t wanna waste your initial time in the market/job.

6.Start Learning Software and shortcuts in them

Believe me learning software is best thing to sustain in the new day and age.And learning shortcuts for tool or command can help you speed your work ,be it in college or job.

7.Sketching

I know lot of prof. have already have told you to do sketching regulary,you don’t have to be Picasso n all,but regular practice of sketching does help make your hand free and spontaneous in explaining your design ideas wherever necessary(to client,prof or consultants/artisans)

8.Photographs

Any thing you like in any thing or creature,in nature or your surroundings,click a clean photographs in your phone or DSLR just to keep it in your memory and use it for any inspiration or feel of the reference you are looking for(no copying).Sketching is best ,but if you don’t have time,photographs helps.

9.Measuring Tape

Keep a measuring tape with you always and keep measuring anything you feel useful,even your hand or foot for that matter,so as whenever you are out for a case study or any architecture study in general ,you can instantly know what is the approx. measurement of the place you went or the measure of the chair you are sitting in(I learnt this in Internship)

10.Travel

If you don’t know already,travel has the solution to many.Apart from recreational thing,it helps in knowing new places and habitats and their environment.Through observation ,you can learn the use of local material induced to make a lasting hut,etc.Humans are same everywhere ,adding culture and environment changes the architecture of specific place but human tendency and psychology is same.

-Ar.Saumya M