Obtaining a Career in Architecture

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Architecture is a field that takes into account a lot of imagination, visualization, and persistence. A person having all these qualities can surely be a very good architect. For any person who is fine in drawing, talented, and imaginative at designing, a career in architecture can definitely be extremely worthwhile to follow.

The architect is in charge for designing and planning the interiors and foundation of a home or a building. Architects also devise the plans and blueprints for buildings, homes, sky scrapers, and mansions also. Every successful architect needs to be versatile and imaginative and must respect the preferences of the customers at the same time.

In the architectural world, there are plenty of jobs and interior designing is a complete new career. A professional architect is anticipated to be capable of drawing a blueprint, both of the exterior as well as interior elevations, the foundation, floor plans, roof details, cross sections, and the electrical layouts.



The people who are willing to pursue a career in architecture must keep a few important things in mind. Ideally, students who have an interest in mathematics and physics have better prospects in architecture. To be a successful architect, one's mind should also be creative towards designing. Apart from being mathematically and technically sound, one should also be environmentally and socially aware of how to be a good architect. Better communication skills, physical ability, good concentration level, patience, team spirit, flexibility, accountability, and responsibility all help in this profession.

To apply for a course in architecture, one must have acquired at least 60 percent marks in the higher secondary examinations in the field of chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, mathematics, and drawing. Most institutes conduct an entrance test through state and national level entrance exams.

To access entry into the undergraduate courses in the private and government institutes, a national level entrance exam is conducted by the "council of architecture". There are also various entrance tests at the state level.

The degree course that is Bachelor's of Architecture is a course of 5 years. After the completion of graduation, one can even opt for studying the post graduate level of architectural study which can be from 18 months to 2 years.

Some architects also go for specialization in some particular field. These fields can be regional planning, urban designing, building management and engineering, industrial design, naval architecture, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, architecture concerning transport and traffic planning.

A number of possibilities are there for the architects to make a choice from. Opportunities are available in both private as well as government sectors. The government sector includes the department of public works, archaeological department, defense ministry, railway department, post and telegraphs, PSU, NBU, NIUA, HUDC, CDA, and the like. One can even opt for a private practice or set up one's own firm to establish a successful career in architecture. After all, the only thing necessary to leave an impact in the business is a good vision and dreams.

Thus, this field has increasing prospects in the near future. To an individual who is focused and talented, a career in architecture will prove to be very rewarding and lucrative.
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