Why architecture

Kulapat Yantrasast has become the go-to architect for contemporary art galleries and museums in the US. Here are 10 of his major projects that differ from typical white-box exhibition spaces, with warm materials, unusual layouts and custom furniture. Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast was recently chosen to oversee a major renovation of galleries at The Met in New York. And this ability of architecture to explain its age happens whether a building is an elaborate showpiece or a banal standby.

As such, it lends itself to so many visually creative mediums that call for the conceptualizing of space—graphic design, video production, film, etc. The inherently public nature of architecture means that the work architects do is akin to sociology and psychology; setting the stage for social behaviors and interior reactions.

Who is encouraged to enter into a space or community, and who is dissuaded? How are people made to feel in given context? Why does a prison feel different from a library? And should it? The shape and function of public space is arrived at by political means, so by extension, architects are de facto politicians. Looking at the built world critically, instead of considering it a set of established and ironclad traditions, reveals that architecture is an entirely synthetic, human creation.

It can take nearly any shape we want it to. Most all of these factors are mutable, so while architecture evolves slowly compared to other artistic mediums, it still evolves. Traveling is a requirement for all architecture students. In architecture school you are constantly making and producing things. Sketches, Drawings, models, renderings, 3d computer drawings, paintings, collages, photographs, portfolios, resumes, good ideas, the list goes on and on. Architecture school allows you to use that passion of creating.

Students often find themselves so focused in the process of making, they lose track of time and the rest of the world.

Staying up all night with intensity and focus. Some of the most important people in my life are the people who I went to architecture school with.

Several times a year the AIAS has conferences for students that brings together the larger community. All architecture students should be attending these conferences for the opportunity to meet a great diverse group of really cool people. Architecture school is all about looking at problems from many different angles.

Its not about getting from point A to point B. Its ALL about the journey that students go on to arrive at the destination. I struggled my whole life in school, until I landed myself in architecture school. Once I did, for the first time in my academic life, I felt like I was rewarded for my creative ideas, rather than being punished for not following instructions.

The amount of personal growth that happens during the years of architecture school is mind blowing! Students enter as freshman totally intimidated by the work that thesis students are producing, and 5 years later they themselves are producing the same amount of work.

Everyone is capable of sooo much more than they think they are. Architecture school is an amazing opportunity to test your limits of what you think is possible.

If you want to become an Architect, have your own design firm, stamp drawings and see your buildings get built, then architecture school is the first step of the process. Becoming an Architect, is a 3 part process of: the proper education, on the job experience hours and passing the Architect Registration Exam.

On average it takes about 13 years from when students first begin architecture school, until they are a licensed architect. It took me 15 years. Maybe its graphic design, engineering, computer programming, art or whatever.

Architecture school is a ton of fun! Traveling the world, meeting cool architecture people, staying up all night, working really hard alongside your best friends and always testing the limits. Some people myself included never wanted architecture school to end because it was soo much fun.