I misspelled "agriculture" on my college application form.

1. Because I think I'm smarter than everyone else.
2. I don't really need any money
3. I'm an insomiac
4. and I like to wear only black.

i enjoyed art but considered it to be useless at times.

i hated the coat and tie and 9 to 5 (come to find out design/architecture is 24/7). never going back to the corporate life.

i considered there to be a social problem that architecture can alleviate.

i'm sure there are other reasons, but these answer the question.

because the job being Ron Jeremy was already taken.

money and girls...


being ron jeremy might have been a much more fascinating flick that being john malcovich...

I've seen Being Ron Jeremy ...

Its pretty funny.

I've loved drawing my entire life, and I though I thought about doing medicine, I didn't end up getting the grades to go to Med school. So Architecture it was!

nosleep, these are the main reasons i'm thinking about architecture too. i started as a studio art major, then switched to art history, but both can be useless or the use is so far removed it can be hard to see. most people just don't go to art museums. maybe if visual art were as popular as movies or music i would be more interested. i want to help people in some way but i don't think i have the personality to do it as directly as a social worker or someone like that does. and i want to do something where i can create something useful that helps people and is more concrete and practical. something that will last and i can point to and say i designed that.

I was in a successful but doomed ME/ ind. des. dual degree program, and felt like I was being shoved out the door by the ID department. Professors were depressed that their signature program was getting cut by a clueless new dean, students were just confused and feeling lost.

I looked around and thought that it seemed that the architecture students were interested in some of the same things I was, and it seemed like there I could learn the types of things I wanted to learn. It was, for the most part. the trouble came when I graduated and wasn't sure if I wanted to do architecture or take what I'd learned and go somewhere else.

still working on that one. Working in architecture now, but I'm greatly troubled by the separation between designers and builders.

"I want to be an architect because I'm too butch to be an interior designer and too poncy to be an engineer."

previous entries:

this is why i became an architect

why architecture?

why did you choose architecture

etc
etc
etc

thanks holz. you just searched for 'why architect' didn't you

genau

cos when i ws 18 i was a fool...

to impress chicks, no really!

lisa - this may interest you on a social level

Architecture for Humanity

because my mom made me do slave child labor, digging trenches and making adobes
and i didn't get a job in 3dgfx so i did renderings for architects and realized after 6 years experience i could get my license with no education only broad range of experience and some multiple choice tests about life saftey

because my mom told me i would be good at it and that i had the right sensitivities.

thanks nosleep. have you done any projects with them?

God, I don't fucking know. I ask myself this everyday.

some days, i have so much paperwork, i feel like i should work for the IRS. or the patent office...

LEED bites, man. why do people actually buy into it?

it was either architecture school or prison

I sold a steer... a nutered bull ...aka...cattle.....it payed my bill for my first semester at the Boston Architectural Center.... and here I'm
dancing!

---as posted by newstreamlinedmodel on 2/19/05.

I thought this was the funniest and best ever answer to this question.

nope - i just found out about them this week.

LB, i'm putting that quote on my facebook, that's brilliant. Does newstream still haunt these hills?

I haven't seen newstreamlined in a looong time. Too bad.

Cause Tom Selleck played an architect in the movie 3 Men and a Baby and that seemed more attainable than being Magnum PI.

they'd always point at the strangest person in the room (with matching unusual clothing, jewelry, etc) and say, "its okay, he's an architect"

I wanted to be that person...mocked yet admired, reverred yet misunderstood

to design buildings

clearly evilplatypus' answer wins.

cause pimping ain't easy

i got tricked into it