Architect Student

[TrakMaison]

Hello people, I am currently a 17 year old college student, just recently I switched my major from Electrical Engineering to Architecture because I'm more i'm more of a creative person interested in the creation and drawing, plus living in new york I'm exposed to alot of a different types and styles of architecture, and I love 3D ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION !! but unfortunately I have to wait until next semester to start those classes :/ lol, anyway what I wanted to know was is there any suggestions (readings, resources, websites) I should look at or study to get my self ahead of the game before I start those classes?!

[AJLynn]

What are you talking about? It's finals time! Go work on your current classes!

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Figure out what software you will be using in spring. Download the student or trial version. Spend winter break playing.

 

3ds max, rhino

 

you also can't go wrong learning photoshop and indesign, imo

[TrakMaison]

What are you talking about? It's finals time! Go work on your current classes!

 

Don't worry i'm doing good, I'm talking about my break though

[TrakMaison]

Figure out what software you will be using in spring. Download the student or trial version. Spend winter break playing.

 

3ds max, rhino

 

you also can't go wrong learning photoshop and indesign, imo

 

I design clothes so I'm pretty adept with Adobe products, what would I use photoshop for I guess textures and post editing?

[AJLynn]

If I may make a suggestion, I've gone to architecture school twice and in retrospect spending a lot of time learning or working on 3D rendering is a terrible way to learn architecture. The graphics look pretty but the whole thing has little or nothing to do with actual architectural design, except in theory fields you won't talk about in the first few years, so stay away from the stuff until you get to a 3D rendering class. What you want to practice is pencil drawing.

[TrakMaison]

If I may make a suggestion, I've gone to architecture school twice and in retrospect spending a lot of time learning or working on 3D rendering is a terrible way to learn architecture. The graphics look pretty but the whole thing has little or nothing to do with actual architectural design, except in theory fields you won't talk about in the first few years, so stay away from the stuff until you get to a 3D rendering class. What you want to practice is pencil drawing.

 

Thanks, this is sort of what I was thinking too, I do plan on making architecture my main focus, So my question also applies for that, besides getting books, and looking at videos what else can I do to learn the architect side of things

[AJLynn]

Oh, well, books by Francis D. K. Ching and Edward Allen, Toward a New Architecture by Le Corbusier, and see if anything by Steven Holl or Rem Koolhass makes sense to you. (It's okay if it doesn't, it just makes you sane.)

[eagle_ear]

Chipboard and elmer's glue,

If you get an A in studio you were sniffing the glue.

Learn your lineweights.

Edited December 8, 2010 by eagle_ear

[TrakMaison]

Chipboard and elmer's glue,

If you get an A in studio you were sniffing the glue.

Learn your lineweights.

 

lol...huh?

[eagle_ear]

Profs love models.

Draw