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eymip9 | architecture_train | 0.89 | [ASK] Can you recommend any great architecture books that are short? (40-100 pages) Hi, I would love to start carrying around small and short informative books on architecture for daily commutes. do you have any that are great ? god i posted this 3 times because of the tag. im sorry for that mods. i hope this is ok. | fgiwnhr | fgid1b0 | 1,580,832,517 | 1,580,817,349 | 3 | -1 | Thermal Delight In Architecture. I would also suggest A Pattern Language, it is certainly over 100 pages, but each section is just a few pages so it is very easy to read small bits at a time. | Overview of Contemporary Troglodyte Design, by Ugg. | 1 | 15,168 | -3 | ||
eymip9 | architecture_train | 0.89 | [ASK] Can you recommend any great architecture books that are short? (40-100 pages) Hi, I would love to start carrying around small and short informative books on architecture for daily commutes. do you have any that are great ? god i posted this 3 times because of the tag. im sorry for that mods. i hope this is ok. | fgixau2 | fgid1b0 | 1,580,832,887 | 1,580,817,349 | 3 | -1 | "Drawing for Architecture" by Leon Krier. It might be more than 100 Pages but it's basically all sketches. Leon Krier does a good job of explaining why people like what they like, and why things work and have worked for millenia. This often puts him at odds with the Architecture Profession (at least the high end designers). He has a comic style of drawing that is pleasant to look at. I highly recommend his other works as well, but they can be up around 200+ pages. | Overview of Contemporary Troglodyte Design, by Ugg. | 1 | 15,538 | -3 | ||
ei5vmz | architecture_train | 1 | [ask] What are your favorite Architecture Theory books? I’m an undergraduate student currently studying architecture and I’m about to go aboard next semester and I really want to start delving into more theory. The books I have picked out to bring with me right now are: In Praise of Shadows The Eyes of the Skin The Image of the City | fcnx8v0 | fco9jr3 | 1,577,820,244 | 1,577,826,843 | 2 | 7 | Christopher Alexander, *Notes on the Synthesis of Form* | Theses might not all be strictly theory but are some of my favorites: - Pattern Language & Timeless Way Of Building - How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - The Place of Houses - Thermal Delight In Architecture - The Burglars Guide To The City - A Place Of My Own - Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings - The Malay House | 0 | 6,599 | 3.5 | ||
ei5vmz | architecture_train | 1 | [ask] What are your favorite Architecture Theory books? I’m an undergraduate student currently studying architecture and I’m about to go aboard next semester and I really want to start delving into more theory. The books I have picked out to bring with me right now are: In Praise of Shadows The Eyes of the Skin The Image of the City | fcu68iw | fcnx8v0 | 1,577,973,548 | 1,577,820,244 | 3 | 2 | 'The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment' This might be the best book on architectural theory I have ever read. It does propose a bit of theory, but much of the book is on the critique of architectural theory itself and how architectural theory has been understood in history and today. It lay the ground work for how to critique theory, outlines the intellectual strands of how current architectural theory came to be, and dismantles much of contemporary theory that is built on flimsy philosophical underpinnings. The author has another book that goes deeper into a proper architectural theory titled, 'Architects & Mimetic Rivalry'. | Christopher Alexander, *Notes on the Synthesis of Form* | 1 | 153,304 | 1.5 | ||
ei5vmz | architecture_train | 1 | [ask] What are your favorite Architecture Theory books? I’m an undergraduate student currently studying architecture and I’m about to go aboard next semester and I really want to start delving into more theory. The books I have picked out to bring with me right now are: In Praise of Shadows The Eyes of the Skin The Image of the City | fcu68iw | fcogkei | 1,577,973,548 | 1,577,831,710 | 3 | 2 | 'The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment' This might be the best book on architectural theory I have ever read. It does propose a bit of theory, but much of the book is on the critique of architectural theory itself and how architectural theory has been understood in history and today. It lay the ground work for how to critique theory, outlines the intellectual strands of how current architectural theory came to be, and dismantles much of contemporary theory that is built on flimsy philosophical underpinnings. The author has another book that goes deeper into a proper architectural theory titled, 'Architects & Mimetic Rivalry'. | I hate theory. What a waste of paper, ink, and time. Learn building design. *Sun, Wind, Light* by DeKay and Brown is the best building book i know of | 1 | 141,838 | 1.5 | ||
va1yjn | architecture_train | 0.75 | How much are y'all making? As we know "industry standard" is to abuse us and offer us as little as possible. I'm job hunting now bc raises haven't keep up with inflation and rent. Have a BArch and MArch 2. With 5 years experience. What are you all making, in what cities, and how much experience? | ibzt5rm | ibztjik | 1,654,968,331 | 1,654,968,510 | 3 | 5 | Charlotte, NC $115,000 17 years experience. | Before I decided to work for myself my last offer was 95k. Turned it down, but I have 10+ years of experience and am licensed. Everyone is looking for staff right now so I think a lot of firms a realizing that lowball offers aren't going to cut it. | 0 | 179 | 1.666667 | ||
va1yjn | architecture_train | 0.75 | How much are y'all making? As we know "industry standard" is to abuse us and offer us as little as possible. I'm job hunting now bc raises haven't keep up with inflation and rent. Have a BArch and MArch 2. With 5 years experience. What are you all making, in what cities, and how much experience? | ic1wegb | ibzt5rm | 1,655,007,426 | 1,654,968,331 | 5 | 3 | 10 years, 115k, Chicago. Not licensed, mARCH. | Charlotte, NC $115,000 17 years experience. | 1 | 39,095 | 1.666667 | ||
va1yjn | architecture_train | 0.75 | How much are y'all making? As we know "industry standard" is to abuse us and offer us as little as possible. I'm job hunting now bc raises haven't keep up with inflation and rent. Have a BArch and MArch 2. With 5 years experience. What are you all making, in what cities, and how much experience? | ibzt5rm | ic0b3g8 | 1,654,968,331 | 1,654,976,799 | 3 | 5 | Charlotte, NC $115,000 17 years experience. | I’ve got 7 years experience, licensed. In DC. I was making 80k plus like a 5-7k annual bonus, going to be making 85k plus a little bigger bonus in Seattle. I think in your position you could easily be getting 75 plus or minus? I guess depends on where you’re located. | 0 | 8,468 | 1.666667 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5c4d1u | i5ckeq2 | 1,650,372,716 | 1,650,379,547 | 23 | 24 | My guess is tilt-up panels | Precast concrete producer here. Those are likely insulated sandwich wall panels. They would likely be a 3-4-3 configuration if we produced them (3" of concrete, 4" of insulation and 3" of concrete), which is a 10" total thickness, structural/architectural wall. | 0 | 6,831 | 1.043478 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5ca0to | i5ckeq2 | 1,650,375,294 | 1,650,379,547 | 9 | 24 | Check out Thermomass. They make precast insulated panels with an inner structural wythe, a layer of bonded insulation, and then an exterior exposed concrete layer. The panels are either precast or made on site and tilted up. Also search for “tilt-up” or “tilt wall” precast construction. | Precast concrete producer here. Those are likely insulated sandwich wall panels. They would likely be a 3-4-3 configuration if we produced them (3" of concrete, 4" of insulation and 3" of concrete), which is a 10" total thickness, structural/architectural wall. | 0 | 4,253 | 2.666667 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5c0lcm | i5ckeq2 | 1,650,370,818 | 1,650,379,547 | 3 | 24 | Looks like precast concrete panels. If you look up that term you can see the different methods commonly used for them both for the forming and reinforcing. Likely it provides the structure and is furred and insulated on the interior side. | Precast concrete producer here. Those are likely insulated sandwich wall panels. They would likely be a 3-4-3 configuration if we produced them (3" of concrete, 4" of insulation and 3" of concrete), which is a 10" total thickness, structural/architectural wall. | 0 | 8,729 | 8 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5calvk | i5ckeq2 | 1,650,375,547 | 1,650,379,547 | 3 | 24 | I think it's Lone Tree, IA not CO, OP. In any case, neither state struggles with a lack of big straight roads. :) | Precast concrete producer here. Those are likely insulated sandwich wall panels. They would likely be a 3-4-3 configuration if we produced them (3" of concrete, 4" of insulation and 3" of concrete), which is a 10" total thickness, structural/architectural wall. | 0 | 4,000 | 8 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5ckeq2 | i5cbxlj | 1,650,379,547 | 1,650,376,112 | 24 | 1 | Precast concrete producer here. Those are likely insulated sandwich wall panels. They would likely be a 3-4-3 configuration if we produced them (3" of concrete, 4" of insulation and 3" of concrete), which is a 10" total thickness, structural/architectural wall. | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 3,435 | 24 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5c4d1u | i5c0lcm | 1,650,372,716 | 1,650,370,818 | 23 | 3 | My guess is tilt-up panels | Looks like precast concrete panels. If you look up that term you can see the different methods commonly used for them both for the forming and reinforcing. Likely it provides the structure and is furred and insulated on the interior side. | 1 | 1,898 | 7.666667 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5c0lcm | i5ca0to | 1,650,370,818 | 1,650,375,294 | 3 | 9 | Looks like precast concrete panels. If you look up that term you can see the different methods commonly used for them both for the forming and reinforcing. Likely it provides the structure and is furred and insulated on the interior side. | Check out Thermomass. They make precast insulated panels with an inner structural wythe, a layer of bonded insulation, and then an exterior exposed concrete layer. The panels are either precast or made on site and tilted up. Also search for “tilt-up” or “tilt wall” precast construction. | 0 | 4,476 | 3 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5cbxlj | i5d3ai7 | 1,650,376,112 | 1,650,386,804 | 1 | 3 | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | Precast concrete panels or tilt up concrete panels | 0 | 10,692 | 3 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5cbxlj | i5ddn55 | 1,650,376,112 | 1,650,390,681 | 1 | 2 | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | We call it “Tilt-Up” cast onsite and then tilted up in place. | 0 | 14,569 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5d4hsa | i5ddn55 | 1,650,387,278 | 1,650,390,681 | 1 | 2 | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | We call it “Tilt-Up” cast onsite and then tilted up in place. | 0 | 3,403 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5dunec | i5cbxlj | 1,650,397,008 | 1,650,376,112 | 2 | 1 | Could be cast-in-place, that's how the Amazon Warehouse off N. Washington here in colorado did it. Make a pan on slab, then stand it up. | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 20,896 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5dunec | i5d4hsa | 1,650,397,008 | 1,650,387,278 | 2 | 1 | Could be cast-in-place, that's how the Amazon Warehouse off N. Washington here in colorado did it. Make a pan on slab, then stand it up. | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | 1 | 9,730 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5dx9w0 | i5cbxlj | 1,650,397,940 | 1,650,376,112 | 2 | 1 | In NZ we call those concrete tilt panels and are used in 99% of commercial construction. Precast indeed, done on flat casting tables, then lifted with a crane onto a truck for delivery. Quite fascinating really. | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 21,828 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5dx9w0 | i5d4hsa | 1,650,397,940 | 1,650,387,278 | 2 | 1 | In NZ we call those concrete tilt panels and are used in 99% of commercial construction. Precast indeed, done on flat casting tables, then lifted with a crane onto a truck for delivery. Quite fascinating really. | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | 1 | 10,662 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5e5sz0 | i5cbxlj | 1,650,401,114 | 1,650,376,112 | 2 | 1 | Could have been cast on site | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 25,002 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5e5sz0 | i5d4hsa | 1,650,401,114 | 1,650,387,278 | 2 | 1 | Could have been cast on site | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | 1 | 13,836 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5ejyq7 | i5cbxlj | 1,650,406,712 | 1,650,376,112 | 2 | 1 | Tilt panels | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 30,600 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5ejyq7 | i5d4hsa | 1,650,406,712 | 1,650,387,278 | 2 | 1 | Tilt panels | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | 1 | 19,434 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5eruul | i5cbxlj | 1,650,410,022 | 1,650,376,112 | 2 | 1 | Yep this looks like tilt-wall construction / precast. You can tell by the seams where the panels were assembled into a wall. These have structure built inside and is a faster way to build than the more traditional ways of building. Also cheaper. Typically used in speculative buildings or warehouses. What you see is a rubbed concrete finish to give it that smooth clean look. Nice project | Are you sure that is not stucco with vertical control joint channel? | 1 | 33,910 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5d4hsa | i5eruul | 1,650,387,278 | 1,650,410,022 | 1 | 2 | It looks like a concrete panel But there are several textures (paints that are not just colors, in brazil we call them textures, not sure if its the correct translation) that can mimick that very very well | Yep this looks like tilt-wall construction / precast. You can tell by the seams where the panels were assembled into a wall. These have structure built inside and is a faster way to build than the more traditional ways of building. Also cheaper. Typically used in speculative buildings or warehouses. What you see is a rubbed concrete finish to give it that smooth clean look. Nice project | 0 | 22,744 | 2 | ||
u73l9h | architecture_train | 0.99 | Does anybody know how the concrete panels on the left are constructed? Its impossible for it to be just naked concrete right? The project is called **Lone Tree Wellness center** and its in the middle of colorado. archdaily page here https://preview.redd.it/05kw2foo7hu81.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a84eff471a32c5afcedca81e2e877b70058ba2c7 | i5eruul | i5eozaa | 1,650,410,022 | 1,650,408,797 | 2 | 1 | Yep this looks like tilt-wall construction / precast. You can tell by the seams where the panels were assembled into a wall. These have structure built inside and is a faster way to build than the more traditional ways of building. Also cheaper. Typically used in speculative buildings or warehouses. What you see is a rubbed concrete finish to give it that smooth clean look. Nice project | Is it definitely concrete? It could be cladding panels fixed to rails. I’ve used an Equitone product before made to look like concrete. | 1 | 1,225 | 2 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw0c186 | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,208,635 | 29 | 20 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | Welcome to architecture. | 1 | 23,210 | 1.45 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0co9x | iw1jjt8 | 1,668,208,932 | 1,668,231,845 | 12 | 29 | I get you. I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time - in life as well as professionally to be honest! I’ve got 9 years experience and have only 3 built projects under my belt. I still don’t have a handle on some MEP & Structural terminology and constantly find myself googling things that I feel I should know. The thing about being an architect is you need to know a bit about everything - we’re Jack of all trades, master of none. And it needs to be that way because of the very nature of architecture and construction and our role within the design team to coordinate etc. So, I blunder on - I learn a little more each time. I consider myself well rounded too - working from briefing & concept stage through to construction & handover. But I do wonder when will that magic moment come where I feel in control and like I know exactly what everyone is talking about! | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | 0 | 22,913 | 2.416667 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw11n9k | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,221,297 | 29 | 7 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 1 | 10,548 | 4.142857 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw0dg4g | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,209,291 | 29 | 4 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | Experience from remodels, additions, new homes, vertical mixed use, construction, and a few other things. If you want the experience start delving into it. | 1 | 22,554 | 7.25 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw1cy43 | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,227,652 | 29 | 4 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | I’m young in the profession - halfway through my masters and 3 years work experience. I constantly feel like I know nothing. Every new task/ assignment feels like a whole new load of information I’ll never fully understand or remember. I often question if I’m in the right profession but I’ve tried a lot of other stuff too and this has been the best of them. I think it’s probably half my personal insecurity/ imposter syndrome and half, like other people have said, we are a jack of all trades. Anyway, I think I’m saying this to say you are not alone, and I’m also glad to find out I’m not alone in feeling this way either! I also think once I graduate I’m going to try and specialise in a certain building type eg. Hospitals or something Edited to add: I have always gotten good marks at uni and my bosses have always liked me so rationally I do think I’m competent. But I never feel it. I think that’s probably a common feeling in a field that is so broad | 1 | 4,193 | 7.25 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw0zxnw | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,220,392 | 29 | 3 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | 1 | 11,453 | 9.666667 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0j092 | iw1jjt8 | 1,668,211,901 | 1,668,231,845 | 2 | 29 | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | 0 | 19,944 | 14.5 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw0iobv | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,211,741 | 29 | 1 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | 1 | 20,104 | 29 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1jjt8 | iw1i70q | 1,668,231,845 | 1,668,230,947 | 29 | 1 | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | Sounds like you might be in the valley in the Dunning Kruger effect graph. Congrats on making it that far! It's a show climb up but it gets better. For fun go through the replies in this thread and see who hasn't made it to the valley yet.... | 1 | 898 | 29 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0nnyz | iw1jjt8 | 1,668,214,149 | 1,668,231,845 | -1 | 29 | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | Architecture is an old person’s game. I’m an architect of about 17 years, working in Healthcare. The first 10 years I worked in small firms and built about 20 projects (new construction 30K SF to 60K SF MOBs smaller renovations). Now I work at a well respected international firm. Working on 250K+ SF projects. I am firm believer that working at smaller firms that give you a broader experience is more beneficial to your career than working in large firms straight out of school. You NEED technical knowledge to practice as an architect. I’m only at the stage in my career where I can now relate experiences from past projects to the ones I’m working on now. Like EVERYTHING in life it takes time and study. As an architect, think about what you are being asked to do: you are creating a structure that is safe for people to use. It needs to withstand sun, rain, wind, cold, heat, bugs. It needs to be aesthetically pleasing as well as being structurally sound, and be safe Incase of fire. Along side of this is that the users of the space need it to function to their specific needs, in terms for space relationships, how doors works, security, millwork, lighting, adequate power, data, air conditioning (people’s careers are built around these subjects) And, there are AHJs that need to be appeased to ensure you’ve adhered to all of the building codes (laws). Oh also, make sure you’re getting appropriately paid, worked your contract correctly, nurtured the client relationship. But then you also need staff to help you and consultants to design the systems so you don’t get sued for designing an electrical system that you didn’t go to school for. There are so many facets to this profession it’s mind boggling. My advice is to find a good mentor who you can talk to after meetings that went way over your head. In some of those mentor meetings with architects are 50-60 years old they have answered my questions with: “Oh, I don’t know about that, I let the consultant figure that out’”. As architects we are coordinators of consultants, we are the spine of the project, from beginning to end and without you the project will fail. Everyone has imposter syndrome, if you feel that way, it just means that you give a shit. Clients love people who care about the service they are providing. | 0 | 17,696 | -29 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0dg4g | iw11n9k | 1,668,209,291 | 1,668,221,297 | 4 | 7 | Experience from remodels, additions, new homes, vertical mixed use, construction, and a few other things. If you want the experience start delving into it. | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 0 | 12,006 | 1.75 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0zxnw | iw11n9k | 1,668,220,392 | 1,668,221,297 | 3 | 7 | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 0 | 905 | 2.333333 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0j092 | iw11n9k | 1,668,211,901 | 1,668,221,297 | 2 | 7 | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 0 | 9,396 | 3.5 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0iobv | iw11n9k | 1,668,211,741 | 1,668,221,297 | 1 | 7 | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 0 | 9,556 | 7 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0nnyz | iw11n9k | 1,668,214,149 | 1,668,221,297 | -1 | 7 | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | Thats a lot of the profession. It’s more about knowing *how* to find the answer that is knowing the answer. Especially when it gets to technical details and code items. You might come off great in the moment getting it right but if you get it wrong people will remember for a whole lot longer. Way better to say, I’ll have to get back to you on that than pretend like you know the answer. | 0 | 7,148 | -7 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1cy43 | iw0zxnw | 1,668,227,652 | 1,668,220,392 | 4 | 3 | I’m young in the profession - halfway through my masters and 3 years work experience. I constantly feel like I know nothing. Every new task/ assignment feels like a whole new load of information I’ll never fully understand or remember. I often question if I’m in the right profession but I’ve tried a lot of other stuff too and this has been the best of them. I think it’s probably half my personal insecurity/ imposter syndrome and half, like other people have said, we are a jack of all trades. Anyway, I think I’m saying this to say you are not alone, and I’m also glad to find out I’m not alone in feeling this way either! I also think once I graduate I’m going to try and specialise in a certain building type eg. Hospitals or something Edited to add: I have always gotten good marks at uni and my bosses have always liked me so rationally I do think I’m competent. But I never feel it. I think that’s probably a common feeling in a field that is so broad | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | 1 | 7,260 | 1.333333 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1cy43 | iw0j092 | 1,668,227,652 | 1,668,211,901 | 4 | 2 | I’m young in the profession - halfway through my masters and 3 years work experience. I constantly feel like I know nothing. Every new task/ assignment feels like a whole new load of information I’ll never fully understand or remember. I often question if I’m in the right profession but I’ve tried a lot of other stuff too and this has been the best of them. I think it’s probably half my personal insecurity/ imposter syndrome and half, like other people have said, we are a jack of all trades. Anyway, I think I’m saying this to say you are not alone, and I’m also glad to find out I’m not alone in feeling this way either! I also think once I graduate I’m going to try and specialise in a certain building type eg. Hospitals or something Edited to add: I have always gotten good marks at uni and my bosses have always liked me so rationally I do think I’m competent. But I never feel it. I think that’s probably a common feeling in a field that is so broad | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | 1 | 15,751 | 2 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1cy43 | iw0iobv | 1,668,227,652 | 1,668,211,741 | 4 | 1 | I’m young in the profession - halfway through my masters and 3 years work experience. I constantly feel like I know nothing. Every new task/ assignment feels like a whole new load of information I’ll never fully understand or remember. I often question if I’m in the right profession but I’ve tried a lot of other stuff too and this has been the best of them. I think it’s probably half my personal insecurity/ imposter syndrome and half, like other people have said, we are a jack of all trades. Anyway, I think I’m saying this to say you are not alone, and I’m also glad to find out I’m not alone in feeling this way either! I also think once I graduate I’m going to try and specialise in a certain building type eg. Hospitals or something Edited to add: I have always gotten good marks at uni and my bosses have always liked me so rationally I do think I’m competent. But I never feel it. I think that’s probably a common feeling in a field that is so broad | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | 1 | 15,911 | 4 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0nnyz | iw1cy43 | 1,668,214,149 | 1,668,227,652 | -1 | 4 | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | I’m young in the profession - halfway through my masters and 3 years work experience. I constantly feel like I know nothing. Every new task/ assignment feels like a whole new load of information I’ll never fully understand or remember. I often question if I’m in the right profession but I’ve tried a lot of other stuff too and this has been the best of them. I think it’s probably half my personal insecurity/ imposter syndrome and half, like other people have said, we are a jack of all trades. Anyway, I think I’m saying this to say you are not alone, and I’m also glad to find out I’m not alone in feeling this way either! I also think once I graduate I’m going to try and specialise in a certain building type eg. Hospitals or something Edited to add: I have always gotten good marks at uni and my bosses have always liked me so rationally I do think I’m competent. But I never feel it. I think that’s probably a common feeling in a field that is so broad | 0 | 13,503 | -4 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0zxnw | iw0j092 | 1,668,220,392 | 1,668,211,901 | 3 | 2 | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | 1 | 8,491 | 1.5 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0zxnw | iw0iobv | 1,668,220,392 | 1,668,211,741 | 3 | 1 | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | 1 | 8,651 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0zxnw | iw0nnyz | 1,668,220,392 | 1,668,214,149 | 3 | -1 | It sounds like maybe you’re in the wrong place. I think you’d probably do better somewhere that has smaller projects so you can do more of them per year, that’s the only way you’ll build up the experience you feel like you don’t have. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 6,243 | -3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw0j092 | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,211,901 | 3 | 2 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | 1 | 54,717 | 1.5 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0iobv | iw2w7rz | 1,668,211,741 | 1,668,266,618 | 1 | 3 | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | 0 | 54,877 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw1i70q | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,230,947 | 3 | 1 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | Sounds like you might be in the valley in the Dunning Kruger effect graph. Congrats on making it that far! It's a show climb up but it gets better. For fun go through the replies in this thread and see who hasn't made it to the valley yet.... | 1 | 35,671 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw27yxc | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,252,367 | 3 | 1 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | 1 | 14,251 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw2kf9f | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,260,820 | 3 | 1 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 1 | 5,798 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw2w7rz | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,266,618 | 0 | 3 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | 0 | 25,157 | 3,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1zchp | iw2w7rz | 1,668,244,665 | 1,668,266,618 | 0 | 3 | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | 0 | 21,953 | 3,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw22tva | iw2w7rz | 1,668,247,845 | 1,668,266,618 | 0 | 3 | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | 0 | 18,773 | 3,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw26vt7 | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,251,438 | 3 | 0 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | 1 | 15,180 | 3,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw2cw8d | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,256,183 | 3 | 0 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | No comments. Thanks for posting. | 1 | 10,435 | 3,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw2of9r | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,262,924 | 3 | 1 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | 1 | 3,694 | 3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2w7rz | iw0nnyz | 1,668,266,618 | 1,668,214,149 | 3 | -1 | The actual work is not like school. Google answers, copy shit, cheat. My firm has a one drive with years of projects and if I’m working on a detail or design I’ve never done before , I’ll just find an old project someone who’s long gone has done and copy it, adjust it to fit my project. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 52,469 | -3 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0iobv | iw0j092 | 1,668,211,741 | 1,668,211,901 | 1 | 2 | Younger designers should focus on small to mid size projects. I am six years into my career. I have 3 built projects, 1 project under CA. A lot of authorship and SD thru CA on all 4. That's a built project almost every 1.5 years. All institutional/civic/education projects. Feel very comfortable in my skin and running my own show. Bosses are giving me bigger 100k sf projects to lead. | Hell naw, i fake it till i make it. If my lead needa something done and i dont know how i google that real quick. Then they think i am very knowledgable | 0 | 160 | 2 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1i70q | iw0nnyz | 1,668,230,947 | 1,668,214,149 | 1 | -1 | Sounds like you might be in the valley in the Dunning Kruger effect graph. Congrats on making it that far! It's a show climb up but it gets better. For fun go through the replies in this thread and see who hasn't made it to the valley yet.... | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 16,798 | -1 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw27yxc | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,252,367 | 0 | 1 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | 0 | 10,906 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1zchp | iw27yxc | 1,668,244,665 | 1,668,252,367 | 0 | 1 | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | 0 | 7,702 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw27yxc | iw22tva | 1,668,252,367 | 1,668,247,845 | 1 | 0 | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | 1 | 4,522 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw27yxc | iw26vt7 | 1,668,252,367 | 1,668,251,438 | 1 | 0 | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | 1 | 929 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw27yxc | iw0nnyz | 1,668,252,367 | 1,668,214,149 | 1 | -1 | The best part of this post OP is that you care. I've been doing this for almost 30 years and still look to mentors for guidance. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 38,218 | -1 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw2kf9f | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,260,820 | 0 | 1 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 0 | 19,359 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1zchp | iw2kf9f | 1,668,244,665 | 1,668,260,820 | 0 | 1 | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 0 | 16,155 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2kf9f | iw22tva | 1,668,260,820 | 1,668,247,845 | 1 | 0 | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | 1 | 12,975 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw26vt7 | iw2kf9f | 1,668,251,438 | 1,668,260,820 | 0 | 1 | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 0 | 9,382 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2cw8d | iw2kf9f | 1,668,256,183 | 1,668,260,820 | 0 | 1 | No comments. Thanks for posting. | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 0 | 4,637 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0nnyz | iw2kf9f | 1,668,214,149 | 1,668,260,820 | -1 | 1 | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | It's called a "practice" for a reason, haha! | 0 | 46,671 | -1 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw2of9r | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,262,924 | 0 | 1 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | 0 | 21,463 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw3751g | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,271,325 | 0 | 1 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | I guess That's why it's called a practice lol | 0 | 29,864 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw4mkeb | iw1vptx | 1,668,293,050 | 1,668,241,461 | 1 | 0 | First, OP it’s totally normal to feel ‘underwater’ the first few years. There is allot to learn even out of school. Actual detailing, actual site observation and documentation, contracts, navigating permitting and way, way more than they could ever teach or simulate in school. It’s just a very deep profession. Get a good mentor (or three) and pick their brain on the regular. It could even be a good tradesperson; not just another architect. They all have good knowledge you need. However… however. I don’t understand how so many commenters here are working so many years on just a few projects. Are they all just massive campuses or hospitals? I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’ve done somewhere around 300 jobs start to finish. I started my career doing a lot of branch bank work as well as small medical (mri, ct, doctors offices, etc.). I did something like 3-6 of those yearly. Keep in mind the MRI and CT were usually just a small suite of rooms, but the branch banks were ground up; including a new prototype one group is still using. A few years in I ended up doing restaurant work almost (but not quite) exclusively for ten years. Yes many were fast-food restaurant ground-up projects (site adapt prototypes) but another many were also fast-food remodels (which require much more in-depth site visits and documentation). As well as prototype development and management. For about three years I was doing 30 fast-food projects a year; 15 remodels and 15 ground ups ALONG with about 10 tenant fit-out fast-casual restaurants (each site was unique and we did the plan developments) and the occasional one-off something else. For the past four years I’ve been doing very large high-rise historical multi-family renovation and redesign (gutting abandoned historical buildings and doing apartments) and have done one of those a year along with at-least three fast-casual restaurants and two one-off things (car dealership, funeral home, office renovation, master plan for a boys and girls club, etc.). Many of the clients I work with have lots of building experience and are very familiar with the process and end up with us because they had terrible, expensive (and non-productive) experiences with other architects. All that is to say.. if you want more experience there are firms that will give it to you. | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | 1 | 51,589 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw8baga | iw1vptx | 1,668,365,915 | 1,668,241,461 | 1 | 0 | I relate to this so much. I’m 10 yrs into project development / PM as an architect and every day I feel so inadequate. Constructors, investors, designers, building code supervisors, authorities, utilities, etc. all look at me at difficult situations, misunderstandings, conflicts to decide, to manage, to know better. The thing is, they all know their respective fields so much better than me and i am caught in the middle and its so overwhelming. I console myself with the idea that this is all normal and nobody can know everything. They say, architects are generalists, not specialis. And it is hard. | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | 1 | 124,454 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1vptx | iw0nnyz | 1,668,241,461 | 1,668,214,149 | 0 | -1 | I think we all have this problem. There are so many things to learn. And if you think you know something somebody just changes the regulation and everything is different again. Everybody who tells you he knows everything to build a proper building is a liar. It maybe depends a little on the country where you are working. And of course on scale. The smaller the Projects the more you do thinks again. I am working on Projects 30Mio.+ and I've got the feeling I've never done something twice. My company does Labs, and they are all so different. Now a friend of me is doing his single family house, he doesn't understand, that I can't get him the answers right away. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 27,312 | 0 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2of9r | iw1zchp | 1,668,262,924 | 1,668,244,665 | 1 | 0 | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | 1 | 18,259 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw3751g | iw1zchp | 1,668,271,325 | 1,668,244,665 | 1 | 0 | I guess That's why it's called a practice lol | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | 1 | 26,660 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1zchp | iw4mkeb | 1,668,244,665 | 1,668,293,050 | 0 | 1 | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | First, OP it’s totally normal to feel ‘underwater’ the first few years. There is allot to learn even out of school. Actual detailing, actual site observation and documentation, contracts, navigating permitting and way, way more than they could ever teach or simulate in school. It’s just a very deep profession. Get a good mentor (or three) and pick their brain on the regular. It could even be a good tradesperson; not just another architect. They all have good knowledge you need. However… however. I don’t understand how so many commenters here are working so many years on just a few projects. Are they all just massive campuses or hospitals? I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’ve done somewhere around 300 jobs start to finish. I started my career doing a lot of branch bank work as well as small medical (mri, ct, doctors offices, etc.). I did something like 3-6 of those yearly. Keep in mind the MRI and CT were usually just a small suite of rooms, but the branch banks were ground up; including a new prototype one group is still using. A few years in I ended up doing restaurant work almost (but not quite) exclusively for ten years. Yes many were fast-food restaurant ground-up projects (site adapt prototypes) but another many were also fast-food remodels (which require much more in-depth site visits and documentation). As well as prototype development and management. For about three years I was doing 30 fast-food projects a year; 15 remodels and 15 ground ups ALONG with about 10 tenant fit-out fast-casual restaurants (each site was unique and we did the plan developments) and the occasional one-off something else. For the past four years I’ve been doing very large high-rise historical multi-family renovation and redesign (gutting abandoned historical buildings and doing apartments) and have done one of those a year along with at-least three fast-casual restaurants and two one-off things (car dealership, funeral home, office renovation, master plan for a boys and girls club, etc.). Many of the clients I work with have lots of building experience and are very familiar with the process and end up with us because they had terrible, expensive (and non-productive) experiences with other architects. All that is to say.. if you want more experience there are firms that will give it to you. | 0 | 48,385 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw1zchp | iw8baga | 1,668,244,665 | 1,668,365,915 | 0 | 1 | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | I relate to this so much. I’m 10 yrs into project development / PM as an architect and every day I feel so inadequate. Constructors, investors, designers, building code supervisors, authorities, utilities, etc. all look at me at difficult situations, misunderstandings, conflicts to decide, to manage, to know better. The thing is, they all know their respective fields so much better than me and i am caught in the middle and its so overwhelming. I console myself with the idea that this is all normal and nobody can know everything. They say, architects are generalists, not specialis. And it is hard. | 0 | 121,250 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw0nnyz | iw1zchp | 1,668,214,149 | 1,668,244,665 | -1 | 0 | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | As a first year studying interior architecture, this whole conversation is overwhelming haha | 0 | 30,516 | 0 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2of9r | iw22tva | 1,668,262,924 | 1,668,247,845 | 1 | 0 | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | 1 | 15,079 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw22tva | iw3751g | 1,668,247,845 | 1,668,271,325 | 0 | 1 | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | I guess That's why it's called a practice lol | 0 | 23,480 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw4mkeb | iw22tva | 1,668,293,050 | 1,668,247,845 | 1 | 0 | First, OP it’s totally normal to feel ‘underwater’ the first few years. There is allot to learn even out of school. Actual detailing, actual site observation and documentation, contracts, navigating permitting and way, way more than they could ever teach or simulate in school. It’s just a very deep profession. Get a good mentor (or three) and pick their brain on the regular. It could even be a good tradesperson; not just another architect. They all have good knowledge you need. However… however. I don’t understand how so many commenters here are working so many years on just a few projects. Are they all just massive campuses or hospitals? I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’ve done somewhere around 300 jobs start to finish. I started my career doing a lot of branch bank work as well as small medical (mri, ct, doctors offices, etc.). I did something like 3-6 of those yearly. Keep in mind the MRI and CT were usually just a small suite of rooms, but the branch banks were ground up; including a new prototype one group is still using. A few years in I ended up doing restaurant work almost (but not quite) exclusively for ten years. Yes many were fast-food restaurant ground-up projects (site adapt prototypes) but another many were also fast-food remodels (which require much more in-depth site visits and documentation). As well as prototype development and management. For about three years I was doing 30 fast-food projects a year; 15 remodels and 15 ground ups ALONG with about 10 tenant fit-out fast-casual restaurants (each site was unique and we did the plan developments) and the occasional one-off something else. For the past four years I’ve been doing very large high-rise historical multi-family renovation and redesign (gutting abandoned historical buildings and doing apartments) and have done one of those a year along with at-least three fast-casual restaurants and two one-off things (car dealership, funeral home, office renovation, master plan for a boys and girls club, etc.). Many of the clients I work with have lots of building experience and are very familiar with the process and end up with us because they had terrible, expensive (and non-productive) experiences with other architects. All that is to say.. if you want more experience there are firms that will give it to you. | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | 1 | 45,205 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw22tva | iw8baga | 1,668,247,845 | 1,668,365,915 | 0 | 1 | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | I relate to this so much. I’m 10 yrs into project development / PM as an architect and every day I feel so inadequate. Constructors, investors, designers, building code supervisors, authorities, utilities, etc. all look at me at difficult situations, misunderstandings, conflicts to decide, to manage, to know better. The thing is, they all know their respective fields so much better than me and i am caught in the middle and its so overwhelming. I console myself with the idea that this is all normal and nobody can know everything. They say, architects are generalists, not specialis. And it is hard. | 0 | 118,070 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw22tva | iw0nnyz | 1,668,247,845 | 1,668,214,149 | 0 | -1 | Hi there. I have about 6-7 years of experience and I am about 2 years post chartership in the UK at the moment, also working for a large engineering firm where most projects take from 5 to 15 years to complete. Only one of the projects I worked on has been fully realised and that was from where I was about 1 year into my working experience, others have been partially completed or I didn’t have a big enough role in them to have significant oversight of the process. So I have the same challenges and it is absolutely normal, especially when you have more experience in some areas than others and are constantly surrounded with people who have over 20 years of experience in their particular area. A good way to see this is as a learning opportunity because a big advantage of working for large companies is that you can ask questions and build your knowledge on architecture and other disciplines over time for very complex and varied topics. But generally, nobody ever knows everything. Regulations change, trends change, technology changes, we constantly need to evolve to retain market shares in different sectors, so it is very easy to be out of depth for anyone really. In that sense the biggest ability we have as architects is finding information whether that is from colleagues, specialists, regulations, clients, end-users etc. It is part of our role and the moment we accept that things become a little bit easier I think. I recently finished the technical design of a specialist project where I knew nothing about putting the details together. My first instinct was to try to work overtime to find out everything I need by myself, but then I was reminded that there are plenty of colleagues in the company who specialise in these things. So I reached out, I asked, I delegated where it wouldn’t be time-efficient for me to give something a go and next time a similar project comes in, I will be in a much better place to handle it. All I am trying to say is, yes, we don’t know many things, and I don’t think we will ever know everything, so it is better for everyone to lean into that rather than fight it. And over time, what you will notice is that the things you learn along the way become second nature enough for you to be considered an expert if that is what you are looking for. I hope this helps. :) Edit: As others have said, if your experience is lacking or there is an area you would like to explore you have a few options, including changing companies to work for a smaller one and picking up smaller projects on the side e.g. house extensions etc. However, don’t forget that you can also speak with your line manager and ask them allocate you to smaller projects if possible, or otherwise accommodate your needs and interests. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 33,696 | 0 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw26vt7 | iw2of9r | 1,668,251,438 | 1,668,262,924 | 0 | 1 | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | 0 | 11,486 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw26vt7 | iw3751g | 1,668,251,438 | 1,668,271,325 | 0 | 1 | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | I guess That's why it's called a practice lol | 0 | 19,887 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw26vt7 | iw4mkeb | 1,668,251,438 | 1,668,293,050 | 0 | 1 | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | First, OP it’s totally normal to feel ‘underwater’ the first few years. There is allot to learn even out of school. Actual detailing, actual site observation and documentation, contracts, navigating permitting and way, way more than they could ever teach or simulate in school. It’s just a very deep profession. Get a good mentor (or three) and pick their brain on the regular. It could even be a good tradesperson; not just another architect. They all have good knowledge you need. However… however. I don’t understand how so many commenters here are working so many years on just a few projects. Are they all just massive campuses or hospitals? I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’ve done somewhere around 300 jobs start to finish. I started my career doing a lot of branch bank work as well as small medical (mri, ct, doctors offices, etc.). I did something like 3-6 of those yearly. Keep in mind the MRI and CT were usually just a small suite of rooms, but the branch banks were ground up; including a new prototype one group is still using. A few years in I ended up doing restaurant work almost (but not quite) exclusively for ten years. Yes many were fast-food restaurant ground-up projects (site adapt prototypes) but another many were also fast-food remodels (which require much more in-depth site visits and documentation). As well as prototype development and management. For about three years I was doing 30 fast-food projects a year; 15 remodels and 15 ground ups ALONG with about 10 tenant fit-out fast-casual restaurants (each site was unique and we did the plan developments) and the occasional one-off something else. For the past four years I’ve been doing very large high-rise historical multi-family renovation and redesign (gutting abandoned historical buildings and doing apartments) and have done one of those a year along with at-least three fast-casual restaurants and two one-off things (car dealership, funeral home, office renovation, master plan for a boys and girls club, etc.). Many of the clients I work with have lots of building experience and are very familiar with the process and end up with us because they had terrible, expensive (and non-productive) experiences with other architects. All that is to say.. if you want more experience there are firms that will give it to you. | 0 | 41,612 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw8baga | iw26vt7 | 1,668,365,915 | 1,668,251,438 | 1 | 0 | I relate to this so much. I’m 10 yrs into project development / PM as an architect and every day I feel so inadequate. Constructors, investors, designers, building code supervisors, authorities, utilities, etc. all look at me at difficult situations, misunderstandings, conflicts to decide, to manage, to know better. The thing is, they all know their respective fields so much better than me and i am caught in the middle and its so overwhelming. I console myself with the idea that this is all normal and nobody can know everything. They say, architects are generalists, not specialis. And it is hard. | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | 1 | 114,477 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw26vt7 | iw0nnyz | 1,668,251,438 | 1,668,214,149 | 0 | -1 | Its good that there’s always more to learn. | Any and all "professions" as time goes by all professions, and crafts as well gather history. Not that neat nancy-pamby "this is whay came before" the dreaded "this is what you will be confronted with and need to handle". History is a killer ... And then there are all those new guys with new theories that must absolutely be implemented. The great art , what you didn't know what arche-techne meant ? , The great art requires a massive ego. You don't need to know this stuff you just need to be aware that it exist. Because you are better than that. P.S. : it might take a while for others to beleive it about you so meanwhile , learn the stuff. | 1 | 37,289 | 0 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2of9r | iw2cw8d | 1,668,262,924 | 1,668,256,183 | 1 | 0 | Like someone else had mentioned in this thread, architects are generalists (my professor always told us this too). The way technology is progressing and school is being taught, there is just no way to understand everything nowadays in the profession. Just hang onto the things you are most interested in and you will carve out a path for yourself naturally. | No comments. Thanks for posting. | 1 | 6,741 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw3751g | iw2cw8d | 1,668,271,325 | 1,668,256,183 | 1 | 0 | I guess That's why it's called a practice lol | No comments. Thanks for posting. | 1 | 15,142 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2cw8d | iw4mkeb | 1,668,256,183 | 1,668,293,050 | 0 | 1 | No comments. Thanks for posting. | First, OP it’s totally normal to feel ‘underwater’ the first few years. There is allot to learn even out of school. Actual detailing, actual site observation and documentation, contracts, navigating permitting and way, way more than they could ever teach or simulate in school. It’s just a very deep profession. Get a good mentor (or three) and pick their brain on the regular. It could even be a good tradesperson; not just another architect. They all have good knowledge you need. However… however. I don’t understand how so many commenters here are working so many years on just a few projects. Are they all just massive campuses or hospitals? I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’ve done somewhere around 300 jobs start to finish. I started my career doing a lot of branch bank work as well as small medical (mri, ct, doctors offices, etc.). I did something like 3-6 of those yearly. Keep in mind the MRI and CT were usually just a small suite of rooms, but the branch banks were ground up; including a new prototype one group is still using. A few years in I ended up doing restaurant work almost (but not quite) exclusively for ten years. Yes many were fast-food restaurant ground-up projects (site adapt prototypes) but another many were also fast-food remodels (which require much more in-depth site visits and documentation). As well as prototype development and management. For about three years I was doing 30 fast-food projects a year; 15 remodels and 15 ground ups ALONG with about 10 tenant fit-out fast-casual restaurants (each site was unique and we did the plan developments) and the occasional one-off something else. For the past four years I’ve been doing very large high-rise historical multi-family renovation and redesign (gutting abandoned historical buildings and doing apartments) and have done one of those a year along with at-least three fast-casual restaurants and two one-off things (car dealership, funeral home, office renovation, master plan for a boys and girls club, etc.). Many of the clients I work with have lots of building experience and are very familiar with the process and end up with us because they had terrible, expensive (and non-productive) experiences with other architects. All that is to say.. if you want more experience there are firms that will give it to you. | 0 | 36,867 | 1,000 | ||
ysq06b | architecture_train | 0.95 | Too much to learn in this profession? A Question for Architects Hi there. I've got a question for this sub. (Fellow young-ish architects with 2-10 years of experience) - Do you ever feel like you are unqualified, or too inexperienced in situations you find often find yourselves in? Like, do you sometimes feel inadequate in “design” meetings because you are too technical, or do you feel lost when taking with curtain wall subs or talking details with more technical peers? I feel lost being somewhere in the middle. I work on huge projects from schematic design to design development to construction documents and have worked on everything from planning, exterior design, and interiors too. In 8 years, I’ve pretty much only worked on two projects. Learning a lot, but I don’t feel like I’m an expert on anything really particular. I guess I’m wondering if others feel this way and if maybe I should start focusing on doing certain things well? Maybe this means changing jobs? IDK. Side note, I think of myself as a pretty well-rounded designer and work on pretty large-scale hospitals and universities... with a master's degree and 8 years working of experience and I can't tell you the first about how to build a single-family wood-framed house for example. Reddit is like Human Resources, right? If this gets downvoted into oblivion I will understand. Thank you! | iw2cw8d | iw8baga | 1,668,256,183 | 1,668,365,915 | 0 | 1 | No comments. Thanks for posting. | I relate to this so much. I’m 10 yrs into project development / PM as an architect and every day I feel so inadequate. Constructors, investors, designers, building code supervisors, authorities, utilities, etc. all look at me at difficult situations, misunderstandings, conflicts to decide, to manage, to know better. The thing is, they all know their respective fields so much better than me and i am caught in the middle and its so overwhelming. I console myself with the idea that this is all normal and nobody can know everything. They say, architects are generalists, not specialis. And it is hard. | 0 | 109,732 | 1,000 |
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