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Originally Posted by Clark Dorigo
Hey, everybody. I don't know if anybody has any idea, but it's a good forum to ask. I'd love to design homes/buildings/etc. some day. Today I discussed with somebody about ideas and I might be offered an internship, but it wouldn't be paid, which is fine, but I'd like a paying job related to architecture/art as well. This fall I plan on taking drawing lessons. I want to do a lot of things such as become great at drawing, graphic design, photography, architecture of course, and become a nutritionist. This fall I plan on taking basic drawing lessons and a little bit of graphic design. Since I want to do so many things I'm not gonna do so much of all of that at once.
I met up with my cousin a few weeks ago who's an architect and he suggested maybe contacting contractors in the area (I live in Hudson County in New Jersey) and see if I could do jobs even such as printing out blueprints, working on contractor's sites helping moves boxes, etc. just to be around and learn. I called a bunch of places, even saying I'd do small errands for employees such as getting them tea, coffee, and water, just to gain knowledge about architecture and the business, but none were hiring or they wanted you to have experience. One guy suggested contacting bigger firms because his is small. His firm also only gave internships/jobs for high school (I think) students and people going to college for architecture. I don't know how big the other firms were (I went inside one in Edgewater, NJ, small building, but don't know what's considered big or small in terms of firms). I might contact other firms.
So, any ideas for somebody such as myself? Any sort of help would be appreciated.
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Everything made sense until I got to 'nutritionist'!?
Couple things;
You can't realistically be an architect without a Bachelor of Architecture degree. check out the AIA
You can design houses and additions and depending on the state light commercial without an architecture license, but you still have to know your way around a complete set of plans. Check out the AIBD
Graphic design will not help you in these fields, minimally to enhance design skills.
Learning AutoCAD and Revit would be much more helpful and gain you skills to be employed. Try a trade or tech school or junior college.
Working for a homebuilder would help you to learn a little construction, terminology and how it works on that side.