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Is there any future in Architectural Technologist/Technician programs?
Browsing around through the forum, I notice that majority of the posters are already architectural degree students and qualified architects. This just got me thinking.
Is there any future for people who are not in the degree programs but just studying to be technologists or technicians?
Once we are in the job market , can we expect decent jobs? What kind of work can I expect to be doing?
Should I aim to eventually get a degree in the future ?
Are these programs just a fancy word for "drafter" or "Cad monkey"?
I don't expect all those questions to be answered but just thought I would put them out there :)
Don't remember the last time I even heard the term Architectural Technologist used in any US firms.
You will still find such positions in almost every single Canadian company. But that's only because Canada is 10 years behind on everything.
Arch Technologist smacks of olden days when drafting mouse was a bag of rubber shavings and your drafting table came equipped with an ashtray.
To be fair, a technologist with 10+ years of office experience was just as knowledgeable (if not more so) than their architectural counterpart.
These days, even architecture grads are unemployable. We are all slowly being replaced with Revit 3.0.
If you are referring to people that dont go to architecture college, but go to a trade school or some other program to prepare them for drafting, there is actually a higher demand for these type of people but not in architecture offices, their value lies in there ablity to do mechanical, electrical, plumbing, manufacturing, production of specialized parts and pieces, and most of them will be trained in drafting programs other than Revit, Acadd.
These days if these guys are smart you wont find them working at an architecture office. The term Cad monkey is mostly reserved and used to describe architecture people who went to arch. college but are not licensed, but honestly ive met a few trade draftsmen and they are a lot smarter than most interns i met.
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