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.