16 Aug 2022 Tuesday - '...overhead at lunch - how I decided to become an architect'

At lunch today, two architects were talking about their children's interest in arts and crafts. One talked about her son's cardboard models of real and imagined weapons, planes and ships while the other's son had started a visual journal often supplementing his written entries with sketches of what he sees in front of him. A favourite of his is a point-of-view sketch of 

I had an intern who joined us after completing his Form 5, we sometimes take them at this young age as a friendly gesture to the parents of the student. For the young people to gauge if architecture is the right course to pursue, after a month of internship and shadowing one or two of our architects. This student was well prepared; he had taught himself CAD in Form 3 by watching YouTube videos, and had an impressive portfolio of drawings and photographs. He knew he wanted to be an architect at a young age. Last year, he completed his Part 2 and now sits at a workstation near me living his ambition.

Not all of us have this clarity at such a young age.