How to become an Architect

No, if you're interested in becoming a registered architect since it requires a degree. However, there are plenty of career paths and roles in this industry and not all require degrees.

You can express and convey your ideas, analysis, vision, and detailed specification of the design solution by drawing. Most architectural schools teach you basic to advanced drafting techniques. So, you don't have to be good at drawing in today's modern technology, as you have many 3D Modelling and Rendering software to communicate your ideas and vision for your projects.

Best ways that an architect can make more money:

• Raising your rates if you've good skills
• Writing blogs to get money from advertising and online commissions
• Creating a design or a product that solves a problem and selling it
• Sell your knowledge by offering consulting services and online courses

Some alternative career path ideas for architects are as follows:

• Product Designer
• Tech-Founder
• Real-Estate Developer
• Urban Entrepreneur
• Graphic Designer
• 3D Visualization Artist
• PR and Communications
• Building Surveyor
• Town Planner
• Historic Buildings Inspector etc.

The benefits that an architect receives varies from company to company. Many architectural firms offer benefits such as life and health insurance plans, profit-sharing plans, retirement funds and paid holidays and vacations. Some companies provide short-term disability insurance, vision insurance, health club reimbursements or cell phones to employees.

An architect's job is not to use the client as a way to achieve their creations but to design a celebration of the client's life by meeting all the essential requirements with creativity and imagination and a contribution to a more sustainable world. So, an architect whose skills and capabilities match the project’s needs will more likely be successful.

High school subjects that are needed to become an architect are:

• Art, including sketching and sculpting and art history
• English, History & other Humanities subjects
• Mathematics, including geometry, trigonometry, algebra and pre-calculus
• Science especially physics

No study program leading to a profession should be considered as useless. If you do not wish to be an architect, then you still have many options to choose another career path using your degree.

To earn a US architect license, it takes a minimum of eight years:

• Five-year bachelor's degree in Architecture
• Three years of internship (Intern Development Program) that can begin during school, given a quick completion of exams. However, if you're looking to get a National Council of Architectural Registration Boards license, then the number of years may vary depending upon your jurisdiction.

Several ways that you can improve yourself as an architect are:

• Plan for expansions and derivations on your project
• Work closely with the clients
• Be innovative and creative to stand out
• Stay up to date with current architectural representation techniques
• Try your designs on virtual frameworks

Calculus is required to complete a degree program in architecture so it's good to study algebra, geometry and trigonometry in high school. Math helps in developing analytical problem-solving skills.

The current trends in architecture are:

• Creating small space living solutions
• Including smart technology and convenient features to the buildings
• Creating more energy-efficient buildings by adding energy creation on the site, generally solar panels and by using local materials
• Creating multi-generational and multi-functional spaces