Arts> Architecture & Design
Overview
Architecture is the art and science of designing physical structures and the spaces around them. Architecture requires graphic and visual skills, technical aptitude in mathematics and science, verbal skills, organizational skills, memory, and compositional talent.
Design consists of delivering a message or creating a product appropriately and artistically, be it a poster, sweatshirt, stage set, television, costume, website, building, automobile, garden, etc. Most design work is now done on or enhanced by computer technology.
Possible Occupational Titles
Architect, engineer, drafter, CAD operator, commercial designer, industrial designer, interior designer, landscape architect, city planner, design consultant, graphic designer, website designer, desktop publisher, book designer, set designer, exhibit designer, fashion designer, textile designer, floral designer.
Getting Started
Architects are required to be licensed in every state, and there is usually an internship/apprenticeship period following education, prior to a licensing exam.
Designers must combine creativity with functionality. Educational requirements vary, but interior designers must be licensed. In some fields, graduate training is beneficial.
Students can begin by observing professionals, talking with them, studying their art and technique, and obtaining experience through internships.
For more in-depth information and to speak about individual interests
and goals, schedule an appointment with a UCS career counselor.
(Roger K. Lewis. Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998)
(Robert J. Piper and Richard D. Rush. Architecture Careers, revised
ed. Chicago: VGM Career Horizons, 2001)
Web Resources
Job & Internship Banks
ArchitectureJobs.com
Architectural Staffing Incorporated
American Institute of Graphic Arts
eArchitect
Archinect
ArchitectureJobs.com
Job-e-Job: Architectural and Design Jobs
Techcareers: Engineering and Architecture
All Graphic Design: Graphic Design Jobs and Creative Jobs
Architectural Resources
American Architectural Foundation
American Institute of Architects
American Society of Landscape Architects
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Association for Women in Architecture
Directory Architecture Professional Organizations, Institutes, Centers, Societies & Associations
Design Resources
American Institute of Graphic Arts
All Graphic Design
American Society of Interior Designers
Graphic Artists Guild
Industrial Designers Society of America
International Interior Design Association
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
Interior Design Society
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Society of Publication Designers
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