What's Contemporary and what's Modern

I hear about all of these different types of architecture. The one that I here the most is contemporary architecture and modern architecture. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? Can you tell from the two pictures above which one is contemporary and which one is modern. If so how do you know. Can someone please reply to this post?

Is it this hard for everyone...

Being an architecture major, mathematics and leadership studies minor, with two leadership positions on campus, a part-time job, a fiancee has been extremely difficult to manage. I have made it this far but I think my body is wearing down. I can barely hold my eyes, keep my cool, sit through long studio lectures, but I can't manage to give up anything though. I here a lot people tell me when I get out of school I'm going to be in the real world. If this isn't the real world what I'm experience right now then I don't think I want to get out of school. This is a hard knock life...were only the strongest and fittest survive.

Instead of getting older, I wish I was getting younger. Back to those days were I could go outside and play without wearing about projects being due and bill that need to be paid. Those times were I could call a girl and have a long conversation about nothing; now I have a fiancee...the conversations are more about weddings, where we gone to live graduation........JESUS. I love her though...wouldn't trade for anything. 1oth year anniversary may be a different story however. LOL. I wonder do other majors go through this drama to this extent.

School of Architecture

Now that I am in my third-year of architecture school, a lot of things have begin to dawn on me about the classroom and it's professors. I have noticed that the class is very opinionated. What one teacher may like the other doesn't. The saying, "You can't please everybody," is so very true especially in a field such as this one.

I think that is somewhat unfair for the students who embark on such a rigorous curriculum. If you are weak-minded and not confident in your work, then it will not be long before you are transformed into that architect that is teaching you...your professor. It is a very thinned lined between having your skills polished and having your skills manipulated. In turn, I ask my myself silently to every architect I meet, is this your style of architecture or is it your professor. I love architecture but I the way it is sometimes taught. Constantly being criticized because your professor feel your door opens the wrong way or because your window is too big. I'm sure that many of Santiago professors disagreed with his work but he is now a household name. Frank Lloyd Wright who had many of his designs criticized is a house hold name around that entire world. What makes an architect a great architect, to me, is one who walks their own path.

What makes a Architect a Great Architect

Since enrolling into architecture, I have difficulty answer one critical question. What makes a Architect a Great Architect? Because there seems to be no real answer in the field of architecture, its hard to answer the question. Is it being able design a building that fit into the context of the environment or introducing something new to the design realm of architect. Is the architect that designed the Bird Nest in Beijing, China considered a Great Architect. Was Daniel Burham or Frank Lloyd great architects? What are the guidelines. I ask one of my teaches if she could answer the question. Although she thought she answered the question, she really didn't. One day, I just may be answered

Water-Architect's Worst Enemy

Water has caused many problems in the buildings that architects design. For the longest, architects have tried to manage and control how water reacts to their building. It's a critical issue that has not been completely solved. Whenever water enter a building, its never good. Water in buildings have resulted in molding, rusting, and in the worse case, has caused a building to fall down.

Architecture at Hampton University

Hampton University architecture program prepares its student not only for the professional realm of architecture but also the mind for the minority architect to enter a world were they are underrepresented and often overlooked. Any architecture student that graduate from Hampton University already has a head start on the competition but it is then the student responsibilty to determine he want to take advantage of such a fruitful education or fall behind.