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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Architecture: Buildings Rock!
Last night, as we were driving down Lake Road, admiring some of the very beautiful houses (and some of the not-so-beautiful ones…), Johnathan pointed out that I seem to have an architecture-gasm every time we go by. He asked me whether I had ever considered going into architecture. Despite the fact that I ogle houses and buildings constantly, I never once considered going into architecture at all. It would make sense, though – I always have a criticism or a comment about the houses I go into. I have specific ideas about how I want my ideal house to look, both on the outside and the inside, and I just … notice these things, I guess.
I’ll be perfectly honest, though – outside of the one architecture class I took in seventh grade as a one-trimester elective and the little knowledge I gleaned from my dad when he worked in construction, I know very little about what a career in architecture would entail. I did some searching to see if there were any classes locally, and unfortunately, none of the colleges around here even have courses relating to architecture. Portland State and the University of Oregon have programs, as does Ohio State, but all of them are a bit far away.
I’ll keep looking and if nothing else, I’ll learn a bit more about what it would entail from the wealth of the intarwebz. It’s just interesting that for something that I’m very apparently interested in, it never occurred to me that it could be something I’d be more involved in.
Anyway, buildings are cool. I still want to buy some graph paper and start sketching things out again like I used to do for fun.
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