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Not that I've worked with building architects, but I have worked in an HVAC engineering firm that does work with architects. My sense is that the original autho
by hobb0001 18y ago
Not that I've worked with building architects, but I have worked in an HVAC engineering firm that does work with architects. My sense is that the original author's view of a real architect's life is shaped by whatever is shown on TV. In contrast to fictional architects, a real building architect owns her own hard-hat for the almost daily visits to the job site. When something goes wrong with the build, she's involved with coming up with a solution, whether it's really an architectual problem or not. (Example, the cement contractor got a bad batch of cement that isn't curing right. It would take a month for him to get the right aggregate to fix it. Instead of delaying the build, could we make the walls less thick and add in supports elsewhere?)
Also, most real-world architects rarely get to build from scratch. Those types of jobs are the dream jobs and tend to be taken by the owners of the architectual firm.
- mixmax 18y agoI have a close friend that is an architect, and what you're describing is pretty accurate. Also I can attest that this is wrong - "An architect can reasonably expect to sleep through every night of the year without a call from work" Architects get just as many ood-hour calls as sys-adms.
- timcederman 18y agoAbout what? I come from a family of architects, and while they work long hours, they certainly don't get odd-hour calls. What type of building architect are you referring to?
- mixmax 18y agoHis customers are often private, and they tend to call him in their freetime - evening and weekends. He also has to do a lot of planning meetings off-hours for the same reason. Maybe we have a difference definition of odd-hours? He never gets calls in the middel of the night though.