considering a masters in architecture 

been drawing and creating buildings for years via art projects and film projects

have written for an architecture journal

but not a sage regarding the field or it’s history, by far. Just a fanatic who likes to imagine buildings and cityscapes and visualize them somehow 

but would love the skills and license to build something real, and do it again and again

a prestigious school will likely accept me

but they talk so much about all this stuff with all these big words

that I know, but am bored with

I used to be very intellectual and it attracted me big money for no reason other than my articulate ness about various abstract things, made even better when I used words like pedagogy and hegemony

but with age, I’m SO over it. I don’t are about big words describing social science that could and should be described in laymen’s terms instead

being able to translate a large idea into laymen’s terms that a child can understand is actually a greater sign of intelligence than remembering big words

so I’m worried that I’ll be enrolling in a school where excellence means turning architecture into more of a complex abstract intellectually aristocratic contest than it has to be

don’t get me wrong.. architecture CAN be that contest and will be that contest for those who like that contest

but I don’t think architecture HAS to be that contest. I just want the technical skills to build any kind of building I want and enough social science to not be a total ass when it comes to minding things like economics, poverty, climate change and the digital layer of our world

but I think some of the intellecualization that goes too much deeper or analytical beyond practical relevancy can get mastubatory and alien at times

I just want to build stuff that’s cool, sexy and responsible. I hate how aesthetics and starchitects are shamed for doing the one thing that probably drew many to architecture in the first place: infusing beauty and passion into their creative process

sure function should remain central, but I don’t want to have the life sucked out of my architecture personally . I love beautiful buildings from old days even when they are functionally screwed, and that love is something we need to pay attention to, because it means something alongside getting the functional part right

so which school should I go to, where I can make stuff that is it’s functional but also just dope as hell without it being viewed as egotistical and childish? Because that  childish part, at least, is what leads to things ppl look back on centuries later with joy