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  1. visionary architects need visionary clients. go find some of those, or, fund the work yourself. or you could do some real thinking and find ways of making amazing art without the need of financiers. ala andy goldsworthy, nancy holt... to take what is lying around you and making it into art takes REAL talent. just an idea. good luck.
  2. if you're having doubts now, in 2nd year of university, then your best move it to just get out of architecture now. seriously! there are ways to become filthy rich in architecture such as getting together with some other people like builders, solicitors, accountants, etc and starting a property development group. or even just becoming a building contractor. the ones with a good business mind make a lot of money. but these routes can take some time to establish and i don't think you'll be able to stick it out that long. not if you're having doubts in 2nd year. only if you're totally, unhealthily, all consumingly obsessed with architecture should you spend 5 years studying it. good luck.
  3. LOWS: repetative, menial and soul detroying tasks. HIGHS: getting paid.
  4. study architecture, you'll love it. it is true that most people who enter the profession grow to hate it very quickly, but very few of those people regret studying architecture. personally, i think it is the best education you could possibly get. i have friends who've graduated and are working in fields from film/set design to conservation/social history research, to one friend who's now a florist. no one i know that has left the architecture office job has ever regretted studying architecture, they just hated the profession. there's a lot of 3d illustrators on this site that went to architecture school
  5. sound like most of you have very fond memories of university. would any of you like to relive those memories this year and do my thesis for me. i'll let you know the submission date when i get it. thanks.
  6. Radiance might be the best to go for in this case. you can input data from glass manufacturers such as transmittance, reflectance, etc so you can be sure that calculations made are based on available glazing products. but even then i really see this as a potential legal disaster. if this board on which your client sits truly believes that what you are giving them is a 100% real representation and the building, when complete, does not look exactly like that they might take action against you or the construction contractor, or the construction contractor may come after you if they come after it. ...they could say you mislead them causing them to pay thousands of dollars on a glazing product that does not fulfill the expectations promised to them through your renderings. it might be worthwhile discussing this request with the glazing manufacturer.
  7. i'd say this is not so much a colour bleed issue but more likely caused by having the secondary bounce multiplier set too high.
  8. has anything useful been added since AutoCAD 2000?
  9. this will be in the building codes relevant to your area. in the building code in my area, they give you a formula -> 2R + G = where R is the riser dimension (vertical height from stair to stair) and G is the going dimension (the horizontal distance from one nosing to the next) - nosing is the very front part of each stair)
  10. it's a tough decision for me between raimund abraham and peaches.
  11. 3d or real? i just can't decide...
  12. i think you guys should re-read his post. he's not looking for the best pretty picture maker. he's looking for the program most suited as a 3 dimensional design tool
  13. in regard as using a 3d program as a conceptual design tool they are all appropriate. maya is used quite extensively. i'll dig up a columbia link... form z is used by a lot of architecture schools. rhino is another. quite a few practices use rhino. eric owen moss architects do, i believe. really, they all do the same thing, they just go about it slightly differently. finding a program that has a workflow and organisation that is agreeable to your way of thinking is the most important thing to consider when assessing how 'good' or 'powerful' a program is. eg. i can't do an absolute thing in form z and find no way to begin mastering that program, but someone who likes the way form z is organised they can do miracles with it. you're just going to have to have a try of all the programs you can get access to and find the one most agreeable to you.
  14. wah, that's only one house? definately a sauna and room for a pony in that one!
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