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Intro To Art B2: A Career As An Architect

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Steven Bielawski Bielawski 1
Ms. Nasser
Intro to Art B2
16 September 2016
Architect
An architect is a person who makes designs, plans, and surveys the construction of a building. Undergoing a career of architecture will require specialized training and an internship to earn your license to practice Architecture since it has to do with public safety. As an architect, understanding environmental knowledge, business, and construction management are equally important as design. Architects are usually hired by clients and are given the tasks of what to create. So an architect is responsible for all the terms that need to be met when designing whatever the client wants. But an architect may also offer other ideas that may help improve …show more content…

Some of the jobs directly related to that degree would be an architect, architectural technologists, and interior and spatial designer. Some jobs that a degree in architecture would be useful for is building surveyor, commercial/residential surveyor, higher education lecturer, historic building inspector/conservation officer, landscape architect, planning and development surveyor, production designer of theater/television/film, structural engineer, and town planner. The average pay for architects is about $74,000 a year. The top 10% make as high as $121,000 and the bottom percent as low as $40,000.

There is a lot of information that needs to be known to become an architect. Such as the environment, construction today is considered to release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere. Architects have to know how to be able to reduce the amount of carbon, boost energy efficiency, and use renewable energy resources. They most also know of environmental regulations that are always becoming more …show more content…

They consist of floor plans, site plans, elevation, and cross-section. The floor plan is a basic and necessary diagram. It is an above view showing the rooms and spaces in a building like a map but only just one level of the building. A site plan is simply showing the whole area of a building or campus of an area. It shows property boundaries and it shows entrances and exits of the site. It needs to show buildings, roads, footpaths, parking lots, trees, landscaping and planting. For construction sites the plan needs to show service connections: drainage and sewer lines, water supply, electrical and communication cables, and exterior lights. The elevation is just a flat view of a building from one side. A cross section is a representation of a vertical plane cut through the building or object. It is similar to a floor plan but instead of a view from the top it is a view from the

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