architect vs. architectural designers

[SteamyTea]

40 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

There was a lot of heavy stuff about contract administration, dispute resolution, finances, VAT, and real life that I hadn't expected to see

I wonder why?

Maybe Architects are crap business people.

41 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

The maths and ethics parts were really easy..

In all fairness it is pretty easy at most degree level, just arithmetic.

[saveasteading]

5 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Maybe Architects are crap business people.

To be fair, this is for people 3 or so years out of uni. In a big practice they mat have no involvement in the business side, so this has to be a good idea.

 

5 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

fairness it is pretty easy at most degree level, just arithmetic.

Says someone who is good at maths?

A large proportion of our industry don't have an inherent feeling for quantities. And even more  couldn't  put an invoice together with retentions and VAT worked properly.

 

Then there is 'setting out'.  I wonder how people find it difficult. They think I'm being lucky or finnicky. 

[SteamyTea]

3 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

Says someone who is good at maths?

Only because I work at it.

Really comes down to how good the teaching is and how motivated the students are.

One of my old colleagues could easily take renewable energy students from the number line to calculus in 4 months, so about 60 hours.

He could not do that with the Social Science students.

[saveasteading]

2 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

could not do that with the Social Science

That is the different way our brains work isn't it? Not motivation.

[SteamyTea]

Just now, saveasteading said:

That is the different way our brains work isn't it? Not motivation.

I am not sure, I am not a social scientist.

Motivation usually comes about by connecting one skill, in another field, to your interest.  I would have thought that knowing how many people were likely to have x-syndrome would have been useful, knowing how much power an hand dryer takes is useful when putting PV on a cafe roof.

[ToughButterCup]

So back to the question: architect or technologist?

 

There is a place for each. 

 

Would members who ask this question in future please spend just a few minutes reading the many posts on the subject. 

 

 

 

Nice quiet fireside reading.