I remember, as a small child (first or second grade-ish), wanting to be very creative when I grew up. When I was around 12, I decided I wanted to be an architect.
Next week I am taking the final of 10 exams required to be a licensed architect in California, and I have completed all the other requirements as well, so I am really close!
I have to go get back to my studying now.
Next week I am taking the final of 10 exams required to be a licensed architect in California, and I have completed all the other requirements as well, so I am really close!
I have to go get back to my studying now.
I wanted to be an artist, ended up as a lawyer. Go figure! I enjoyed your post on listening to the radio in the rain. Hats off to anyone who lives in L.A. and lists Ayn Rand as a favorite writer. Is it as bad there as people say it is?
ReplyDeleteI hope your tests went well, and if not completed, will continue to do so!
ReplyDeleteI like this question, so I will answer. As far back as I can remember, I have always had too many questions and too few answers. I've always wanted to really know and then make something. So I've remained the kid. I used to think that an engineer is the one who understood how everything worked as I saw my cousin become an automobile engineer. So I decided to be an engineer of the best thing I knew: the aeroplane, I was 11. Then my quest for knowledge introduced me to physics, math and I wanted to know even more and become a scientist, my new word for the one who understood everything. Then I read some Kant (was baffled to read that reality was not real, we made it up, I was 17) and realised philosophy is the foundation which had to be laid firmly first if anything had to be known and understood. By that time I was already getting too interested in math and physics that mechanics became my prime interest. But I also wanted some creative aspect to my work to apply and watch how what I made worked. I knew it would be engineering or architecture. I chose the latter as here I would get to understand and work with a lot of diverse and creative scientific fields including my favourite: mechanics. And then finally I read Ayn Rand. Now I am training to become an architect.
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Are you in architecture school at present? If so, where? Thanks for reading! I haven't blogged much at all in quite a while but have been meaning to get back to it.
DeleteYes, I am studying at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India.
DeleteIts been a really enjoying experience to read your blog. I just discovered it while I was googling for Bosch Fawstin last night, I listen to him on Amy Peikoff's channel on blogtalkradio. There's so much great information you have shared so generously here, which is so admirable. I really liked the house you designed in Tennessee and also what you wrote about architecture in your post: Lou Kahn + Some Thoughts on Drawing. Thank you so much for sharing your work. : )