As a student attending that exact school right now, that prof is still around and still calling us all stupid. The only difference, his hair is more grey now.
What I've learned from this video •column •domic needs 8 minutes in each video •form follows function •all exit doors need to open outwards •I still want an origami paper crane building
Form doesn’t always have to follow function. “Function follows form” is also a valid architectural concept. Just need enough money to bribe your engineers so they won’t kill you.
The door opening outwards thing is not universal especially for old European buildings. Learned that the hard way trying to be smooth opening a door for a stranger in Europe and having to pull it ever which way 😖
The few things I understood from this video: - Form follows function - It's a column - Don't build crane shaped buildings - _Becoming an architect will give me permanent insomnia_
When Dom said he can't look at buildings/structures the same after going to architecture school, I related so much. I'm not studying architecture, but I am studying film and performing, so if I'm watching a movie and I see a shot that's overexposed or out of focus, or the audio is peaking, I visibly cringe Tis the life of students like us :')
As a programming student, I cannot look at websites, software, and video games the same way anymore. I see the glaring issues in the logic or structure of a program. You don't know how angry I was at the user interface of the software I have to use to edit videos when I start making them
me with films/movies and writing now, i am a huge english and psychology nerd so i don't look at people anyone normally does and when i read books i look for hidden meanings and foreshadowing and when i'm watching a tv show (example: supernatural because it is the best thing i've ever watched and the filming and the camera work is just amazing and i could go on forever) we don't look at the world in the same way as normal people do :D
The canton tower is a perfaect example, its thin waits, tall and slim designed were great looking and functional, but getting something, laikethat to stand probably left some with mild PTSD
As a mechanical engineer who is working in a construction site. THANK YOU for thinking about us. I have seen questionable designs that made us engineers go "How TF are we supposed to build that"
@@lincabe321 I'll share one of them. The design we got for an outdoor stair of the building is called "Floating stairway". Basically the whole stairs rest on one single cantilever beam that jotted out of the building and it requires a massive beam to support it. We all just go "Why can't we just build normal stairs with normal supports?" you know, having COLUMNS like every stairs ever built.
Omg it's amazing to hear that! I go into the city all the time seeing so many paper crane-like buildings and think to myself "Ok some builder out there must've gotten a migrane looking at the blue prints for this place." XD So refreshing to hear, i gotta say lol
Oh god the amount of lecture halls i've been in with free standing columns in the middle of the room that obstructs the students' view are too damn high! It was so frustrating when I was still in architecture school. And it's damn maddening now that I'm an architect.
LOL ive been to that same university dom drew up... it rly is tragic but i guess unavoidable for structure sake.. better to have them on the wide stairs than to put them where the seats are and block views like they do in some halls ive been in 👀
Man I could really use some advice. I'm in my 3rd year (out of a 5 year program) and we have to design a tall building this semester and I am super struggling at it.
@@ilsavil I've never even laid a finger on architectural work and I'm a CS student but those are a nightmare to deal with. Why the frick am I not allowed to see what my professor is doing
This just goes to show how different Architecture and Art History teachers are because lemme tell you our prof _loves_ the ROM building and never fails to mention how its an architectural masterpiece that shows the contrast between the old and the new and yadda yadda
As a licensed architect who suffered through my professor's repeated blatant roasting of suposedly "pretty" buildings and overused terms like "juxtaposition", here's something that I've learned.... if you want a structure that shows "constrast between the old and the new", look at the Louver Pyramid in Paris. The modern glass pyramid's juxtapostion to the renaissance palace behind it shows how you could mix old and new styles without disrespecting the history behind the old structure.
honestly, the architect who designed it "Ar.daniel Libeskind" is a true genius and his design is really famous cuz he has years of experience backed up with the way his work n when a student tries to copy that without the experience, it becomes a little too bad, I guess that's where they draw the line. although liking an Architects work is very subjective
It is contrast when both parts add value to each other. In the ROM case the monstrous modern part is eating the preexistence to the point it could be just a block of concrete and it would have barely the same visual interest.
Well, my Dad is an architect (and a good one), my Mom is an interior designer, my elder sister is studying architecture and I'm on the way to study it too and from what I've heard from my family, YES it is damn hard but fun too ONLY IF you enjoy designing buildings and are innovative because there are plenty of people who tend to leave architecture right in the middle of the course just because they THOUGHT they could do it
@@marir6432 well, she's highly artistic and always spends her free time looking at catalogues, she literally has an OCD for taking care of interiors (yes we don't have any right to choose our stuff for room decoration without getting any criticism).... And yes even after marrying an architect, an interior designer is always a little clueless about where the beams and columns limit her imagination
@@marir6432 sometimes, she even gets angry with her clients, because they literally try to interfere in her plan (happens in architecture too) but yeah she loves her job and it's definitely a great job if you like to customize interiors
Hey how are you guys on financially , just curious, do you guys take vacations often or drive semi luxurious vehicle . I’m an architecture student and from architect Internet forums I’ve read they are not happy financially
Yup that pretty much sums it up perfectly, I'm an artist but have to do architecture because the country I'm from has practically zero industry for art while the housing market is absolutely booming and while I'm a huge fan drawing whatever wild characters and worlds make their way into my imagination, I'm an even bigger fan of not starving to death
@@dohickey7184 Same :’((( I feel you . I’m also an undergrad architecture student . Just because I had no better options to study I went for architecture course . I wanted to study concept art and illustration . And I regret that decision ....
"When you enter architecture, you'll never look at the buildings the same way again." Totally true. Everywhere I go, I only see mistakes in any angle. Damn. It's a curse.
when you watch Strong Towns videos, you will never see suburbs the same way again. Seriously, though, when you know what good urban planning is, you realize that everything America has done for ~50 years has been a stupid experiment followed by delusions and sunken cost fallacy.
This is also accurate for trying to play as a normal unit in shooter games after only playing as a sniper, but it's positive in this example, as you learn where you can have your head blown off by a cocky bastard with good eyesight. If you don't commonly play sniper then you don't know where the sniper positions in a map are, as you've never had to use them, but once you've played sniper for a long time you learn where the other snipers always go to so you learn how you can not get your head blown off by a cocky bastard with good eyesight.
Also when you're an artist absolutely everything becomes "oh that would be good reference" and you can't go anywhere without seeing something and wondering how you would make that in an artwork
I study biology and i can't walk through any nature spot anymore without going oh i know this plant and this one and oh i hear a bird smh why is this patch monoculture it's a blessing and a curse
Imagine this... my parents had a lot to do with how I ended up in architecture....but now that I completed the course ...I use every opportunity to roast how shitty the house looks 🤣... avery time they get Pissed off I'm like "hey don't get mad at me, you created this monster"
I studied architecture for 2 years and I know I certainly learned a valuable lessons about myself in those 2 years. 1) Architecture is interesting 2) Its not what I want to do with my life. The thing that really made the penny drop was when we visited an architecture house, and they showed off the models they worked on day and night. But it was never build, nor was it ever intended to be build, nor were they payed for it. Rather, they had to pay to enter a competition to "get exposure", and basically slave away for free. How about _nope_ to that? Also, I found architecture to be like religions. Its not like you have your taste and I have mine and we can all just be cool about it. I found architecture was like fanatical cults when it came to styles, and dont you dare commit the herecy of liking the wrong style. Many architectural categories, like "Gothic" was actually derogatory terms to vilify the previous style while singing the praises of the style that is currently in vogue. Since I like monumental buildings, I liked to design huge hall like spaces. Now, if you said that is not an economical use of space, that would've been one thing. But instead, my buildings were "fascist" and "undemocratic". I dont regret my 2 years, it was interesting. But in the end, I wanted a job with clear goal posts. I didnt want to spend day and night pouring my creative soul on a piece of paper, only to have the client go: "Meh, thats not really what we had in mind".
PS, is it just me, or is it increasingly difficult to not have a perfectly normal conversation sabotaged by the censor bots? Now, just speakimg my mind on Javascript seems to offend them.
O great. Its gone _again!_ Seriously, this time I really cannot fathom what was offensive about what I wrote. So, lets just say, I'm a software developer now.
As a hitman myself, I have met many architects who have helped me out. I would never take a bounty on an architect unless they are genuinely awful people.
As a civil engineer who shared classes with architecture students, I can confirm architecture students were dead husks of their former self after spending hours in the studio on their projects. Engineers work together, architects go at it alone.
yea as someone who is in architecture school, spending a lot of time in the studio with your fellow classmates is necessary to decomposing the team member skills as well as the ability to handle criticism. that being said, i haven’t slept in 5 days lol
at my architecture school we also have loots of group projects, to the point it gets annoying because i have to coordinate working with 3 different groups....
As a girl who wanted to be in art school but had her asian parents coerce her into architecture as a "compromise" and is finally in her last semester of architecture school... I just gotta say... FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM AHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@dhritiii7684 Haha hey! I actually graduated this past December and am now working at an architecture firm as a designer :) just got a raise too! (But honestly I'm just trying to pay off my student loans in a year by throwing 80% of my paycheck at it while saving up for pursuing art, sooooo it feels like I make less than the average fast food worker lol). It's rough because... I'm good at what I do and my boss/coworkers are amazing but at the same time I know in my soul it's REALLY not what I want to do the rest of my life. I'm just waiting for the day I can quit (amicably) and finish my webtoon. Edit: Soooo not quite freedom yet lol, but close! There's hope, random strangers on the internet!
@@dhritiii7684 Aww thank you! TT Hey, you got this, your dreams are possible, and it's okay to not know what you wanna do in the future :) making mistakes is part of the process and sometimes it's all a matter of perspective. Instead of "idk what to do", think of it like "there's so many things I can do!" I wish you the best of luck and remember me when you become president or the head of your own business or whatever else!
Then try to explain to your client why they can't have their origami crane house in terms they'll understand, give up & just tell them they can't afford it.
@@Blehwig As you are a student, if you have enough time to prepare for what is coming, then you can do a lot better :) It is a long way to go, but if you like this field, give it a shot! Sorry for late answer
@@anthonydo4305 That's not the worst of it though. Each column has their own name you need to learn. And it changes depending on the Base and Top part as well.
Dude, I don't mind people boasting about their degrees. You've worked hard for it. Your parents/you worked hard to pay for it. And if you were on a scholarship, you definitely deserve it. Go on and be proud, Dom!
Except for.. Well, the situation where you hate it so much and wish you'd never waste your time on it.. so maybe he's not that proud about it after all? (I'm still interested to listen about it though)
@@SophiteSomewhere Indeed, I was a young and very interested in architecture kid. When shit hit the fans, I realize that architecture is just like senior high school, but tailored to make your life worst in 5 years. I gave up in the idea of even applying in collage for Architect. passing grade here in mindanao, Philippines is 75% if you can atleast get 75% then your passed.
@@kaliberaiz8703 Lol same, Im also from mindanao and took archi just bc i like art in general but I realize it wasnt for eveyone and I heared a lot of bad insights about this course, so yeah. I honestly dont know if i should still continue this career, though Im just 3 months Archi student haha. BTW can i get get an update from you?
As a current architecture student who is about to graduate from a 5 year bachelor's program and actually does want to do this stuff, I have to say that approximately 90% of this video is accurate.
@@kylelikesmusic9458 But seriously, the only parts that are "inaccurate" in my opinion are purely opinionated and based on design choice. For example, to some (like Frank Gehry), the sharp awkward angles of some designs are chic and perfectly tolerable. When preparing drawings for a client, you may need more than just the three basic drawing types Domics mentioned (i.e. you may need perspectival drawings, material texture diagrams, and 3D models/views to show a client).
Well, I'm going into architecture for a few years. My parents and guidance counselor laughed when I said I wanted a PhD. I haven't said I want to travel halfway across the world to get another degree in interior design
@@marcellamarques5568 I can only say money well spent haha. But on the bright side, future architects will know what not to design and design more functional and sustainable buildings.
@E_xistential Crisis find a good school maybe with a 5 year program 😭 my education rn is a joke bc I switched over from another degree and can’t transfer
Dubai is a weird place. On one hand, the buildings are beautiful and impressive. On the other, they're useless for the people that actually live there, and instead are made just for toruists and fame. Similar things can be said about a lot of really big structures and Dubai as a whole.
Amen brother. I only have 2 semesters left and I can only think that I want to make a living of my art instead of buildings that are a litteral agony to make in every step.
Just graduated with my degree in landscape architecture and I will never be able to look at a park or garden the same ever again....I just wanted to become an artist. .-.
I know very few people will end up reading this because this video is a year old and there are thousands of other comments, but I have to share my thoughts. As a current architecture student I can say this is just one approach to architecture school, sure form follows function is important, especially in practice, but architecture is SO MUCH MORE than just playing tetris with box-shaped rooms and seeing what you end up with. There are entire rich histories and theories behind different movements and styles. Architects have the opportunity to react to and reshape the local context, while creating interesting and memorable experiences. Just designing for utility repeats the boring "buildings" of everyday life. I think you are getting at this idea at 3:00 and 5:42, but I wish you had more than just the two sentences.. Also, sometimes space that is not directly useable is not necessarily 'wasted' space. Take a look at the Bagsvaerd Church by Jorn Utzon, sure the sweeping ceiling curves are not "useful", sure you can't put furniture there, but the height and the light are absolutely essential to the experience of the space. It shows to you that you have entered a holy place. Now I am not arguing for pure formalism, I'll join you in hating on the Royal Ontario Museum, but not just because it has a bunch of awkward corners, but because the building totally(and literally) imposes itself on the context, with no apparent reference to the city. However I can completely relate to hating the experience. If there is one thing that connects all architecture students it is that we love to complain about our workload.
that reminds me, there’s a church where I live that looks like a giant UFO with a large point sticking out of it. You can’t use the large point, but if you go inside the church, it creates a good sense of wonder because it looks really cool from the inside and from the outside
Interesting comment and I agree. Architecture is clearly not for everyone but that's for each person to find out as you delve deeper into practice. I hated it till my third year when it finally clicked in place for me. Some of my friends till their final year 💀 Also, I thought the channel owner said they did architectural science which was for 4 years. Is that different from a traditional 5 year course? Maybe their experiences are different?
@@SaffariRose From my understanding the main difference is that a 4 year degree, either a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture isn't necessarily a studio-based curriculum. In the US at least they also are not accredited by the organization that controls licenses, so the programs don't allow you to get licensed and practice on your own. As opposed to the 5 year Bachelor of architecture, 4 year degrees may not cover all the classes/topics that allow you to critically engage with the theory, or understand enough of how a building goes together, develop your design process, etc. I can only speak for my experience, so I have no idea what the creator learned in their program, or what any specific 4 year degree is missing, and there is no way to summarize 4 years of painful study in an 8 minute video, but it sounds like their school was much more focused on building science rather than theory & architectural discourse. Obviously there are many different equally valid approaches to architectural education, personally I am glad I am in the 5 year program I chose, even if I still sometimes question why I am here with the daily onslaught of assignments and deadlines.
yeah, this "form follows function" thing is very basic. The reality is that function also follows form, and that form can sometimes just follow the "significance" of the space and what the architect want to convey. Architecture is away too complex to just accept boxes.
Why did I leave my art major and switch a happier English major? Because I was barely 18 and my art teacher yelled at me for 20 minutes for using the wrong shade of red on the first day.
@@fadel_rama I mean you'd be right. But explain that to art professors who think they know everything and that you should be humbled they are paying you attention
@@fadel_rama By the sound of it, they had more issues than this and a teacher should never yell at a student but art class also isn't just screw off and paint whatever time ether. Like if the teacher gave an assignment to draw something with three specific shades of red and someone used the wrong one technically they're in the wrong. I hope that awful teacher didn't crush any of Groovy's passion but that teacher probably ruined someone's life in their career tbh.
@@fadel_rama Sure. Now write a thesis on why that shade of red is meaningful and adds to the piece. Oh you're a first year student who just wants to make pretty pictures? TF are you doing here, there are tutorials on youtube if you want to do that, you don't need a degree to make cool shit people want to buy. You go to art school to learn why using one shade of red will have lasting meaning over another shade of red and how you can use that to your advantage to convey meaning in your work. I'm proud of my degree, not because it's helped me get a job but because the education I received and the experiences there help me produce better work... which helps me get work.
As someone who is graduating Architecture undergrad this semester, the best advice I can give is: If it’s not the final review, perfecting something all night is something you should not do. Your professor will look at it for 1 minute and tell you to completely change it. Iteration and variations are key to having a lot to show, especially digitally. Milk the heck out of small changes in your iterations.
i can relate to this on a spiritual level. the teachers tell you to change something every week, no matter how much work you did. they just want to see you tried everything before deciding on what fit most
Yeah I hated this so much. Every week "change everything". Never any let-up. Always all nighters before the final crit because EVERY drawing always had to be changed!!
@@MonnyArcadethe worst was my first year, where we had a projekt we had to draw by hand entirely. Not only does it not look as clean as computer drawings but it also took so much longer.... After again changing everything i had to draw 6 A0 papers in one week, and that wasnt event the only thing i had to do that week. I slept almost none that week >.>
@@sarahbosch9660 yep I feel you because same!! Our first project in first year was entirely hand drawn too. Our first two projects, I think actually. But tbh redrawing digitally sometimes took me almost as long as redrawing physically 😂
As a first year architecture student, I can confirm that nearly all of this is accurate. I had a prof compare our first drawings to Van Gogh and tell us we sucked. We’re first years. No shit. Edit: I’m coming across this video again and am now in my third year, with two internships under my belt. Like some people said below, architecture is not for the faint of heart but if you love it you can go far. The attitude of my profs has gotten better as we progressed, and I’ve made some great friends. Also, the professional world is very unlike school. It’s much more collaborative and supportive, and it’s okay to not know things. My supervisors who have been in the field for 10+ years frequently google things. TLDR, don’t pursue architecture if you aren’t passionate about it. If you are passionate about it, find a good support network and stick with it, it’ll be so rewarding in the long run.
I fell in love with architecture as a 7 year old when I visited my best friend (whose dad is a draftsman). By 12, I drew the floor and elevation plans for my parents' first house, and drew the floor plans for my grandmother's house a few years after. All without taking a single architecture class. At 25, I designed my current house and it's quite the marvel for those that visit. Though I loved and still love architecture so much, I ended up studying computer science in school and now practice Brand Design. I'm 29 now, and still desire to study architecture in college up to the Masters Degree level not because I want to practice it as a professional, but simply because I love it so much. I think for anyone who is passionate about something, no matter how stressful it is, it will feel like a fun ride begging to be done all over again.
Glad to find someone else who truly likes it. I'm from a family of engineers, mostly a lot of software engineers. My grandpa was a popular civil engineer before retiring (still does some work), and my dad is an engineer and architect both. My dad has a private company which he started by himself and he's the CEO of it. Growing up, I've always admired him, and I've always been intrigued by buildings and structures. It has been my dream since a kid. I also used to attend drawing classes for almost 8 years and have many medals and certificates in it. Everyone calls me an amazing artist and even though recently I haven't had the chance to practice much, I enjoy it. I've been scared on seeing how almost every single person despises the course, how everyone says it's one of the most hardworking degrees and how it's worthless. I feel saddened by it. But coming from a family background where everything mostly revolves around buildings, and my dad himself being a very popular person in town for his work, I'm not going to give up. I'm about to finish high school and I'm ready for the challenge ahead. It may be difficult, but I'm not going to give up on something I've truly always dreamt of
@@avayoung9396 it’s not bad or hard. The problem is that it’s time consuming and a lot of college students don’t know how to time manage properly. I’m already in my last semester for my bachelors and I learned how to juggle my daily schedule with work, school, and extracurricular activities.
@@ci9247 just go on any architect meme page and you will find plenty of reasons. But I can list a few: 1. years on years of education as pre-requisite, 2. yet most likely you won't learn much until you practice. 3. Hardly any pay : the salary in my city is considered high globally, yet the pay has not risen in over a decade so even if it was once a decent occupation, it no longer is. 4. You will waste your life dedicated to it, you end up having no social life with the terrible hours you often have to work. 5. Tasteless clients and government departments will squeeze every ounce of design out of your creation, leaving almost no satisfaction for those who complete their work. 6. Even if you end up working for a big office with interesting portfolio, the work is done in production line style studio environment that the architects often don't learn how to build real practical buildings.
I am on the Way to finish my Masters Degree in Architecture and my advise to People asking if they should study architecture always is: just do it if you are genuinely interested in it! Else you don't have the motivation to get trough all these sleepless nights and missing free days. I don't have weekends and because of that i can be very hard to meed friends. But if you like it it's really rewarding seeing a project work out! =D
One can only hope your designs are double-checked and proof-read more thoroughly than your written compositions. Retired Science teacher here, and while I hate to be pedantic, a Masters candidate in ANY discipline should know the following: Way = way, 'advise' is a verb, 'advice' is the noun which is given when one advises; Architecture/architecture -- when named as a field of study, it is being used as a proper noun and hence always capitalized; if used as a merely descriptive noun , e.g. 'the architecture of that building...' (similar to 'the height of that building...') then it is not; 'don't' is the Present Tense Negative form of 'do', 'won't' is the Future Tense Negative form of 'will'; i = it, meed = meet; comma between it and it's. BTW, EVERYONE 'has' weekends, you need a modifier after that word to clarify your intent, e.g. I don't have weekends free, etc. I only mention these points to give student viewers cause to think: if one hands a set of blueprints, or a resume, to someone, with grammatical errors which LEAP out at the reader, how can they then trust any of your math? Building component dimensions (critical!!), calculations for material quantities, stress-load levels, building time, etc.? It's not that Math and English are the exact same skill set, it's the fact that the writing wasn't double-checked, so it would be understandable if they didn't trust anything else you presented. Our language and the skill to utilize it properly have been denigrated over the past decades to the point where it is now considered a waste of time to be accurate in one's speech and writing. It is, however, JUST as important as it ever was.......unless one WANTS to go into a job interview and be passed over because of inadequate language skills. Remember, it is often not WHAT one knows, it is the fact that one applied oneself to learn it, that gets you the job, or promotion, scholarship, or commission, etc.. PS TO EVERYONE: DON'T use programs like 'grammarly' (lower-case deliberate) to avoid having to improve one's linguistic skills; IMPROVE THEM yourself. ☮
@@davidschmidt6013 one can only hope you can find comments where this kind of answer is called for. I am so sorry for english not beeing my main language and i really don't care of you liked my grammar and sentence structure in an online comment
@@you_gullible_fucc me neither. My Auto correct on WhatsApp often Changes words according to german grammar (like if a word starts with an lowercase alphabet or not) but if someone searches for grammar the comment Section of online Communitys are the worst place to Look. Its not like i will write this way in my Thesis xD
As an engineering student who’s dating an architecture student, I can confirm that most of these are correct. I’ve also helped her quite a bit with her studios to get her thinking about how different elements of the structure would be practical and how different materials and lighting can affect moments in and around the building.
man you and your gf are my future dream lmao, i always want a man who do some engineering stuff so i can see whats wrong with my design. Hope you get along with your gf 💕
As an architecture student, I can TOTALLY RELATE TO professors shitting on building designs. I recently had my midterm case study critique and my professor called one student’s diagram “disappointing”.
As a studying Architecture student this video had me laughing 🤣😂 this was so funny , honestly if you want to make a non- functional buillings at that point it's just a huge sculptor. School is hard frustrating and confusing 😭 but I don't hate it and I'm excited for what's next .
@@Georges_Haussmann LOL, I forgot I even watched this video 😅 came to comment and here I am lol 😂. But yeah my stand is pretty much the same a year later, I am also pursuing a minor in facility management now, not that you probably care lol. 😌 How functional a building is and the human condition is what's most important to me. I don't like the idea of wasted space or resources for a unique looking building. An ideal building for me is one that is both beautiful and functional; but I'd sacrifice functionality over a unique look any day. If an empty box fits the program and best serves the community around it than so be it 🤷🏾♀️.
When you enter architecture school you unlock a new trauma that is presenting a project and having it DESTROYED by the teachers who were supposed to help you
I’m in my second year and the critics of the professor after spending 2 all nighters to finish a project are soul crushing, because you have to start again. Can honestly say its not a program you should take unless you absolutely want to be an architect
thats crazy. ive never been interested in engineering, but i am taking stem related classes next year just because I thought i would like architecture because of the "art" aspect. I thought it'd be better to go into a career where it uses my skills instead of just artistic talent lol
I hate when people say that last phrase. People need to outline EVERYTHING that is entailed in this bloody major-from all-nighters (whether caused from poor time management or work-overload) to loneliness and loneliness to redos/revisions. Don’t get me started on the limited creativity that one has as “professor is always right”…
@@RicolaOnTheRocks only if memorizing chemical mechanisms/trends and engaging in quantum mechanics sincerely interests you. Otherwise don't torture yourself
I once watched a friend of mine agonize over an architecture project and absentmindedly said why not make the building round like a igloo, cause I think the premise of the project was to create a building that was unique to the environment it was created. I swear to god my friend turned his head 180 degrees and went on a hour long tangent about how that wouldn’t work, would need custom building material, a dome can’t be that wide, something about useless corners, and finally he ended by shouting ‘curved doors!’ Then we went out and smoked and he said, “Maybe the doors wouldn’t be curved” under his breath. I don’t know how you folks function.
I could not focus or sleep this week because I hit an inspiration block and I was constantly trying to find a way to make a room im designing for school work. This is def not the career for everyone. 🥴
my sister also picked a career she doesn't really like (graphic design, it wasn't what she expected), but she's so close to finish, she won't stop until she graduates, so... this gives me hope she will self-sustain from her illustrations
oh trust me!! As an interior architect I really hate building in the sims... The sims is a game... I want to enjoy it and take my mind out of work. I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY FLOOR PLAN / PLACE ANY CHAIR OR ELSE I'LL KILL MYSELF... haha really though. I'm usually buying fully furnished houses because of that
@@igamisoy98 This is oddly comforting, lol. I hate building in the sims, so knowing that an architect is hitting up the gallery too makes me feel better about my lack of building skills/enjoyment.
"What is this structure called?" Me, a person who knows nothing about architecture but grew up playing the Sims games: That's a column! And they say games can't teach you anything 😂.
Yeah, games do teach you things. Specifically if it is a hard game and you want to beat it legit, it teaches strategic thinking, resource management, learning from failures and memory
As a resent graduated structure engineer student who just join the work force, I don’t think we will hate those design, we are just going to charge you a “reasonable” high price.
@@whatif6821 i guess coz it's law related? architects has to follow different laws when designing and has to explain to the clients or non architects why certain actions are not allowed in a building or in a type of lot.
Lol despite the harsh reality in the field of architecture, expense etc im still doing it, if you love doing it, if its a passion something you want to accomplish, then no matter how hard, you'll want to keep going .... lol ik I probably took it seriously though it may be a joke lol, but I just had to say if anyone is unsure ... have a blessed day ❤
@@jovi512 I agree. Going for the money only gets you so far if you hate what you do to earn it. Architecture is definitely worth a lot of merit and value if you are really wanting to build (pun intended) a design-related career. Like professional engineering, you get out what you put in and indirectly learn. I graduated with my B.Arch a while back and do boutique interior remodels and new design-builds where I work closely with fabricators, manufacturers, material storyboarding, and in Revit to get ideas for clients out. Almost there on hours for CIDQ.
As someone who spent 2 years in architecture program this is 100% accurate and exactly how I felt. I had to change majors, couldn't handle it. Best decision of my life.
if it's alright, may i ask what major you went to after architecture? im currently at the tail end of my 2nd year but im planning to change for the next school year
If you are planning to get bachelors then you better start studying architecture on your own early: simply get the free books easily available and the softwares and start using them to make random buildings (or whichever buildings you like but make sure to cover all starting from simple) like your own simple house, or a restaurant or a college (take whatever area you already know). Trust me, you'll thank me. Also, follow a bunch of yt channels : )
Haha 😂... Its not so easy as it looks from outside. But it's like... If u are ready to hard work a lot.. And face the consequences in between, and if u r so passionate about it, then go ahead ok 👍😊❤️... Its an amazing major but it has itsown consequences. My 2 classmates quit the course in between bcz they couldn't handle the pressure. So it's basically u have to be strong mentally and ready to work hard a lot. ❤️
Unless your passionate about architecture, I would strongly suggest looking at related fields. I probably would've dropped if I didn't love architecture. The struggle I put up with for the last two years was brutal. Thankfully I'm going abroad for my 3rd year fall semester.
1982 was wanting to be an architect. My dream for 20 years, as long as I could remember. Went to work as a draftsman in a large engineering firm, in the piping department. Talked to the lead architect on my first project. He told me. “Don’t become an architect!!! I went to seven years of school, bachelors degree in architecture engineering, a degree in interior design, and now after 15 years as an “architect” here (th company we both worked) I spend my days designing control room out of CMU and specifying “battleship gray” paint over and over. You’ll never be the next Frank Lloyd Wright!!!” I stayed in piping, retired at 58 and still love architecture. Thank you Lou!! You helped me dodge a bullet!!
My teachers would answer every question with: "you are a student now, it's your job to find all the information on your own". Then why do I need a teacher then? I could just chill at home self-studying and not wasting my time.
It's funny as a fine arts major we had an assignment to create one of those engineering nightmare and non-functional buildings and our prof gave a whole lecture on how those buildings are so much better than boring "normal" buildings
As someone currently in their second year of civil engineering, they might seem like it, but there is a reason we have nightmares about them. No way can you genuinely get the building to stand
well takes is as a lesson, so construction workers wont get your head on a pike :3 An opposite example: In my city they took out the bus stops made of brick and wood benchs at parks and replace them by steel "functional" ones, they are all grey and ugly AF, because the designer was an architect. the lamps are fine tho, have a futuristic touch to them, but everything else it's almost like Hostile architecture for everyone. And my city is in a touristic zone! and semi-urban at that. how a little town is supposed to bring tourist when we have gray ugly pieces in almost every street? Keep the lamp! but we need murals! excentrics status, weird playgrounds, and stilish benches!
Every year or so I remember the youtubers I used to watch so often in my childhood, and it’s always makes me so happy when some of them are still making videos. Domics is one of those youtubers and I can’t describe this feeling of inexplicable happiness I feel seeing that he’s continuing to make great quality, entertaining videos. It feels like I’m back in those good ol days, watching this video, so thank you domics! For continuing to make videos and choosing TH-cam over architecture! Your videos really shaped my worldview and sense of humor in the olden days lol
As an engineering student (not even in civil, but in mechanical), I laughed at every bit of "the engineers will have your head". We make so much fun of you guys. Both Architecture and Business majors, alike.
Don't worry, us structural engineers make fun of the mechanicals too. When we ask for the specs of the RTUs, we don't want the whole damn cut sheet with all the CFSs and BTUs, I just want to know the outer dimensions and the weight.
Lol some guy in my differential equations class be like "If you think about it, architecture is for engineers who cant do math and artists who cant do art"
As someone who's also stuck between doing animation & doing architecture, I loved this. I'm actually not phased despite what you said, bc before this video, I saw an architect and an engineer discuss plans for an island home & felt totally entranced. The fact that they made a cute mockup (a cardboard or plastic 3D model of a structure, like those you may see in malls, of the mall itself) reminded me of when I used cereal boxes to make small houses as a kid. I thought looking into the world of civil engineering would scare me out of it... but I fell in love with it even more. I never thought about how our buildings, bridges, dams, military bases, highways, space shuttles, sewage systems, etc are all thanks to a _vast_ array of engineers. I want to learn to animate & be a youtuber who shares my funny self, but I also wanna be a part of that world. Seeing those two professionals talk about the types of beams to use, the degree to which the soil inclines & how that affects stability, even which way the wind blew- it fascinated me. So... I'm gonna try to enhance both skills for now, 'cause I'm not giving up on either option. 😊
You’re literally in the same exact position as me!! I’m torn between architecture and animation. Working for Disney has been like a childhood dream for me and architecture is something I am encouraged to do because of everyone saying I’m “smart”
@@archikid16 I just graduated high school a month ago with an A+ on my project thesis! 💃🎉🎊 I'm taking a few months off to get my life in order before college (take internships to gain experience, get a driver's license, etc), bc I suspect I have ADHD & would not be able to do all that at the same time (I was already struggling nearing the graduation, so I'd very well be the type of ADHDer to start flopping by university). I'm looking to get diagnosed, but for now I still don't wanna quit this field. It's become pretty much a special interest/hyperfixation. About animation, I'm still learning art tips on paper & have greatly improved, although it's hard to pick up a habit of practicing bc of my symptoms. My older bro already agreed to get me a drawing tablet soon to try things out, to which I am grateful. Things seem to be going okay for now.
Mark was an engineer and Domics was an architect and Seán was a hotel manager - these guys could make and run their own hotel 😂 Edit: Spelt Seán wrong lol
omg it could be an extension of the gaming cafe! Gaming hotel lmao. The higher floors are for more quiet games like Animal Crossing and the lower floors are for more intense vs/co-op games like Smash or Among Us
“East and west windows are inferior to the north and south facing windows because the light will be to strong” The architect that design my house: 200,000 east and west facing windows with a million more well on there way
my road goes from north to south, which makes it so that all the buildings on the street face either west or east, which makes my street all have west and east facing windows.
I disagree. It sounds like all his professors taught him was the modern architecture is best. Where I’m studying, you learn ABOUT modernism, but they definitely don’t drill the “form follows function” mantra into the students
Really depends in your school, I had a lot of fun and my insomnia was there before this lol. Altho, right now I'm not working in architecture so it totally feels like wasted money more than time. Ohh welp, glad my school wasn't outrageously expensive
Ground floor doors always open outwards. Doors to stairs (upper floors) always open into stairs. This is so that in case of emergency, you just push your way out.
So basically, you should make it so that the person will push the door when doing something unconsciously? Well, psychologically that's true i suppose? We'll unconsciously push things out of the way, not pull things out of the way. Hence why you push hotel doors inside
@@reitheinsolvable7380 we’re talking about whether you push or pull. If you actually mean that most doors can be pushed either way, where in the world do you live? No, like, seriously i wanna see that
In my opinion, when someone goes to college for that long and spent years of hard work, you have 100% the right to brag about it any time you want. In fact even if you only have an associates degree, you have the right to brag because it’s years of hard work and dedication.
Yeah but I can understand why he wouldn't want to brag with that degree A 4-year Bachelor's of Science in Architecture (the same degree I'm finishing out) is actually kind of worthless because it doesn't satisfy professional requirements by itself. Most people who take that degree have to finish out a 2 year accredited grad program to have their proper qualifications, so if he really hated architecture and ended up with a degree that can't actually land him a job in an architectural field by itself, then he's got some reasonable contempt w/it for sure
Im studying architecture (in south america btw) and I totally love it, it's not for everyone, but besides that it seems like dom's arch school was like a modernism fundamentalist school which seems rare for me. At least here, form do follow function, but it's also created by the very own creativity and feeling of the studient. If you are planning to go to architecture school, just go. :)
"and stairs aren't gonna fit in nicely without the engineers wanting to put a bounty on your head for your overcomplicated design." Me, an engineer: just the image alone make me want to stick pencils through your eyes
Then you will hate my final project for my last semester for architectural technologist, a twin house that the whole plan look like an X... yes I regret it myself as I am doing the detail and wall sections...
My dad is/was an architect with PhD from one of the hardest schools in Italy. I looked at the amount of creativity that it takes to draw a few lines when I was 14, and I decided, fuck no, this is not for me. I ended up working for him after majoring something else for 8 years building houses till I decided to move on. I too have a lot of appreciation for great architectural designs. They literally make your day to day living far more vivacious. I remember there was a mansion already built somewhere, and he made a few changes to its plan, and we built it somewhere else. I could not believe what a shithole the original design was.
i relate to dom so much, i'm studying journalism and writing books so when i see plot holes or misspelt words i cringe. i can never look at books the same way ever again!
7:12 It's the mansion from _The Matrix Reloaded_ ! And also _A Series of Unfortunate Events_ (2004), but that was actually a different set with a similar design.
Is this a thing in the US? Even domics said in the video that the engineers will have to figure out how to build architects design except that and this joke isnt true because really the architects figures these stuff out...
@@Alkuf100 really? But civil engineers gotta do something right? And also the suppliers who need to figure out how to acquire all your curved pieces of wood. And the builders who need to put your shitty pieces of wood together into a ball. And the mechanics who try to figure out how the fuck you’re gonna get electricity and plumbing into this thing.
@@TumblinWeeds not really, here you can get a house from an architect or a construction engineer but they almost never work together on the same house. Also there is no such profession as "mechanics who try to figure out how the fuck you’re gonna get electricity and plumbing into this thing." where I work, we have consultants who help us architects make plumbing etc work but still, its definitely not like architect makes a nice drawing and 50 other made up professions figure the house out lol
I swear I'm in 10th grade of artistic school and I was insecure about doing architecture, like I wasn't sure I could handle architecture university too so I just thought that I needed to listen to someone experience so I went straight to your channel and I knew I would get satisfied. Watching to this video was fun and I found it useful, it didn't make me change my mind and it made me indeed more sure about my choice. Thank you, Dom, for inspiring me once again, I can't wait to become someone!
So 4 years of architecture school served as the prime motivation to follow your passion. Seeing your passion for animation and creating a youtube channel it must have burned red hot, true torture xD
As a student attending that exact school right now, that prof is still around and still calling us all stupid. The only difference, his hair is more grey now.
why is he aloud to teach like that?
U have something in common with Dom nice
@@kairon156 tenure, probably
@@courtneylewis2415 Sadly I never knew what I would want to learn if I went.
@@MeepsNcheese Tenure is another word I've always heard but never understood what it means.
What I've learned from this video
•column
•domic needs 8 minutes in each video
•form follows function
•all exit doors need to open outwards
•I still want an origami paper crane building
And don't piss off the guys building it.
Fr tho origami paper crane buildings would slap
Form doesn’t always have to follow function. “Function follows form” is also a valid architectural concept. Just need enough money to bribe your engineers so they won’t kill you.
@@frozendaffodil3272 You should google Calatrava, he's done some abstracted bird-inspired stuff. Actually quite beautiful.
The door opening outwards thing is not universal especially for old European buildings. Learned that the hard way trying to be smooth opening a door for a stranger in Europe and having to pull it ever which way 😖
The few things I understood from this video:
- Form follows function
- It's a column
- Don't build crane shaped buildings
- _Becoming an architect will give me permanent insomnia_
Smarts
Yes
Also, exit doors should be designed to open outwardly to avoid killing someone by panic trampling on them :)
"Don't build crane shaped buildings"
Laughs in "Kranhäuser" (Crane building)
Everyone will hate especially engineers and construction worker for a bad design
When Dom said he can't look at buildings/structures the same after going to architecture school, I related so much. I'm not studying architecture, but I am studying film and performing, so if I'm watching a movie and I see a shot that's overexposed or out of focus, or the audio is peaking, I visibly cringe
Tis the life of students like us :')
I can never look at chair design the same way again after my product design A-level course. IKEA is a religious experience for me now.
As a programming student, I cannot look at websites, software, and video games the same way anymore. I see the glaring issues in the logic or structure of a program. You don't know how angry I was at the user interface of the software I have to use to edit videos when I start making them
This is me with music, but I never went to college for it. Just copious hours spent writing music and 6 years of band class.
me with films/movies and writing now, i am a huge english and psychology nerd so i don't look at people anyone normally does and when i read books i look for hidden meanings and foreshadowing and when i'm watching a tv show (example: supernatural because it is the best thing i've ever watched and the filming and the camera work is just amazing and i could go on forever)
we don't look at the world in the same way as normal people do :D
Oh my gosh same, I have a very overanalytic brain yikes
I will now never forget *c o l u m n*
c o l u m n
𝕔 𝕠 𝕝 𝕦 𝕞 𝕟
*C O L U M N*
🄲 🄾 🄻 🅄 🄼 🄽
In portuguese we say coluna so I knew it was column
" An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare" -
@The Yangem *cough* audi *cough* mercedes *cough*
The canton tower is a perfaect example, its thin waits, tall and slim designed were great looking and functional, but getting something, laikethat to stand probably left some with mild PTSD
Bring Real Civil Engineer to this vid
Nah. That engineer will be paid more. It's the dreamm
literally anything related to architecture : *exists*
this quote :
God damn I’m over here saying ” it’s a column. “ “it’s a column” and then the professor said “its a column”
Thanks for making me feel smart
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😂
Neato
yup same thoughts
Same
As a mechanical engineer who is working in a construction site. THANK YOU for thinking about us. I have seen questionable designs that made us engineers go "How TF are we supposed to build that"
Bro share one of the stories lol I'm interested
@@lincabe321 I'll share one of them. The design we got for an outdoor stair of the building is called "Floating stairway". Basically the whole stairs rest on one single cantilever beam that jotted out of the building and it requires a massive beam to support it. We all just go "Why can't we just build normal stairs with normal supports?" you know, having COLUMNS like every stairs ever built.
@@jarupongch and then what did u do? Did u still build it anyways?
Omg it's amazing to hear that! I go into the city all the time seeing so many paper crane-like buildings and think to myself "Ok some builder out there must've gotten a migrane looking at the blue prints for this place." XD So refreshing to hear, i gotta say lol
Dont forget to leave room for plumbing and electrical services. Nevermind too late.
Me, having gone to architecture school: who designed those columns in the middle of the stairs?!?!
exactly
Oh god the amount of lecture halls i've been in with free standing columns in the middle of the room that obstructs the students' view are too damn high! It was so frustrating when I was still in architecture school. And it's damn maddening now that I'm an architect.
LOL ive been to that same university dom drew up... it rly is tragic but i guess unavoidable for structure sake.. better to have them on the wide stairs than to put them where the seats are and block views like they do in some halls ive been in 👀
Man I could really use some advice. I'm in my 3rd year (out of a 5 year program) and we have to design a tall building this semester and I am super struggling at it.
@@ilsavil I've never even laid a finger on architectural work and I'm a CS student but those are a nightmare to deal with. Why the frick am I not allowed to see what my professor is doing
This just goes to show how different Architecture and Art History teachers are because lemme tell you our prof _loves_ the ROM building and never fails to mention how its an architectural masterpiece that shows the contrast between the old and the new and yadda yadda
As a licensed architect who suffered through my professor's repeated blatant roasting of suposedly "pretty" buildings and overused terms like "juxtaposition", here's something that I've learned.... if you want a structure that shows "constrast between the old and the new", look at the Louver Pyramid in Paris. The modern glass pyramid's juxtapostion to the renaissance palace behind it shows how you could mix old and new styles without disrespecting the history behind the old structure.
honestly, the architect who designed it "Ar.daniel Libeskind" is a true genius and his design is really famous cuz he has years of experience backed up with the way his work n when a student tries to copy that without the experience, it becomes a little too bad, I guess that's where they draw the line. although liking an Architects work is very subjective
It is contrast when both parts add value to each other. In the ROM case the monstrous modern part is eating the preexistence to the point it could be just a block of concrete and it would have barely the same visual interest.
Well, my Dad is an architect (and a good one), my Mom is an interior designer, my elder sister is studying architecture and I'm on the way to study it too and from what I've heard from my family, YES it is damn hard but fun too ONLY IF you enjoy designing buildings and are innovative because there are plenty of people who tend to leave architecture right in the middle of the course just because they THOUGHT they could do it
Ooooo what´s your mom´s experience in interior design? Ive been thinking about studying it ^^
@@marir6432 well, she's highly artistic and always spends her free time looking at catalogues, she literally has an OCD for taking care of interiors (yes we don't have any right to choose our stuff for room decoration without getting any criticism).... And yes even after marrying an architect, an interior designer is always a little clueless about where the beams and columns limit her imagination
@@marir6432 sometimes, she even gets angry with her clients, because they literally try to interfere in her plan (happens in architecture too) but yeah she loves her job and it's definitely a great job if you like to customize interiors
Yes, I left Architecture school in term 1 of Level 1.
Now I'm going to a Med School and enjoying it.
Hey how are you guys on financially , just curious, do you guys take vacations often or drive semi luxurious vehicle . I’m an architecture student and from architect Internet forums I’ve read they are not happy financially
and when the world needed him most, he- oh nevermind he's back
_he came_
@@geraldbal7945 *and then vanished*
@@geraldbal7945 oh did he now?
Yes
mcdonalds looking car - yes
The biggest take away is that architecture is not for artists, but for technicians with artistic inclinations.
YES YES YES
Yup that pretty much sums it up perfectly, I'm an artist but have to do architecture because the country I'm from has practically zero industry for art while the housing market is absolutely booming and while I'm a huge fan drawing whatever wild characters and worlds make their way into my imagination, I'm an even bigger fan of not starving to death
@@dohickey7184 Same :’((( I feel you . I’m also an undergrad architecture student . Just because I had no better options to study I went for architecture course . I wanted to study concept art and illustration . And I regret that decision ....
This is so accurate.
Noted
"When you enter architecture, you'll never look at the buildings the same way again."
Totally true. Everywhere I go, I only see mistakes in any angle. Damn. It's a curse.
when you watch Strong Towns videos, you will never see suburbs the same way again. Seriously, though, when you know what good urban planning is, you realize that everything America has done for ~50 years has been a stupid experiment followed by delusions and sunken cost fallacy.
This is also accurate for trying to play as a normal unit in shooter games after only playing as a sniper, but it's positive in this example, as you learn where you can have your head blown off by a cocky bastard with good eyesight. If you don't commonly play sniper then you don't know where the sniper positions in a map are, as you've never had to use them, but once you've played sniper for a long time you learn where the other snipers always go to so you learn how you can not get your head blown off by a cocky bastard with good eyesight.
Also when you're an artist absolutely everything becomes "oh that would be good reference" and you can't go anywhere without seeing something and wondering how you would make that in an artwork
I study biology and i can't walk through any nature spot anymore without going oh i know this plant and this one and oh i hear a bird smh why is this patch monoculture it's a blessing and a curse
Imagine this... my parents had a lot to do with how I ended up in architecture....but now that I completed the course ...I use every opportunity to roast how shitty the house looks 🤣... avery time they get Pissed off I'm like "hey don't get mad at me, you created this monster"
I studied architecture for 2 years and I know I certainly learned a valuable lessons about myself in those 2 years.
1) Architecture is interesting
2) Its not what I want to do with my life.
The thing that really made the penny drop was when we visited an architecture house, and they showed off the models they worked on day and night. But it was never build, nor was it ever intended to be build, nor were they payed for it. Rather, they had to pay to enter a competition to "get exposure", and basically slave away for free. How about _nope_ to that?
Also, I found architecture to be like religions. Its not like you have your taste and I have mine and we can all just be cool about it. I found architecture was like fanatical cults when it came to styles, and dont you dare commit the herecy of liking the wrong style. Many architectural categories, like "Gothic" was actually derogatory terms to vilify the previous style while singing the praises of the style that is currently in vogue. Since I like monumental buildings, I liked to design huge hall like spaces. Now, if you said that is not an economical use of space, that would've been one thing. But instead, my buildings were "fascist" and "undemocratic".
I dont regret my 2 years, it was interesting. But in the end, I wanted a job with clear goal posts. I didnt want to spend day and night pouring my creative soul on a piece of paper, only to have the client go: "Meh, thats not really what we had in mind".
What did you go for instead?
That’s very interesting thanks - what are you doing now with ‘clear goal posts’?
PS, is it just me, or is it increasingly difficult to not have a perfectly normal conversation sabotaged by the censor bots? Now, just speakimg my mind on Javascript seems to offend them.
O great. Its gone _again!_ Seriously, this time I really cannot fathom what was offensive about what I wrote. So, lets just say, I'm a software developer now.
@@Hannodb1961 nice
Meanwhile...
Phineas: Hey Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!
*PROCEEDS TO BREAK THE LAWS OF ARCHITECTURE*
And the laws of physics
And the laws of biology
And the law
MOMMM! Phineas & Ferb ARE BREAKING!! THE LAWS OF ARCHITECTURE !
And the law of gravity
My take-away from this is, architects like to design buildings with sniper towers. Nice.
As a hitman myself, I have met many architects who have helped me out. I would never take a bounty on an architect unless they are genuinely awful people.
@Capp00 would someone please think of the snipers!?!....love your vids capp
“Sniping’s a good job mate”
@@patheticest I'm sorry w- ✋😃
@@yuwiichu1839 hmmmmmmm
As a civil engineer who shared classes with architecture students, I can confirm architecture students were dead husks of their former self after spending hours in the studio on their projects. Engineers work together, architects go at it alone.
we usually work on our own models yes, but we take all nighters together in solidarity
we bond over our shared suffering💞
As an architect... this is a sad truth.
yea as someone who is in architecture school, spending a lot of time in the studio with your fellow classmates is necessary to decomposing the team member skills as well as the ability to handle criticism. that being said, i haven’t slept in 5 days lol
at my architecture school we also have loots of group projects, to the point it gets annoying because i have to coordinate working with 3 different groups....
That's just F in the chat
As a girl who wanted to be in art school but had her asian parents coerce her into architecture as a "compromise" and is finally in her last semester of architecture school... I just gotta say... FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOOM AHHHHHHHHHHHH
yay, how're you doing now?
@@dhritiii7684 Haha hey! I actually graduated this past December and am now working at an architecture firm as a designer :) just got a raise too! (But honestly I'm just trying to pay off my student loans in a year by throwing 80% of my paycheck at it while saving up for pursuing art, sooooo it feels like I make less than the average fast food worker lol). It's rough because... I'm good at what I do and my boss/coworkers are amazing but at the same time I know in my soul it's REALLY not what I want to do the rest of my life. I'm just waiting for the day I can quit (amicably) and finish my webtoon.
Edit: Soooo not quite freedom yet lol, but close! There's hope, random strangers on the internet!
@@iCookieChan1 awww dude that's so great
@@dhritiii7684 Aww thank you! TT Hey, you got this, your dreams are possible, and it's okay to not know what you wanna do in the future :) making mistakes is part of the process and sometimes it's all a matter of perspective. Instead of "idk what to do", think of it like "there's so many things I can do!" I wish you the best of luck and remember me when you become president or the head of your own business or whatever else!
wow what's the title of your webtoon? is it published now on the app? wanna support
Howl's moving castle is sweating profusely rn
Magic
Magic
I see your Howl's Moving Castle and I raise you the Burrow
Lol 😂
@@SilentSilverJoker the burrow
But tower
"An Architect’s dream is an Engineer’s worst nightmare.”
Me, an architect and an Engineer: O_O
you're the avatar
damn, that's actually cool. what typeof engineering did you study?
You’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy
th-cam.com/video/ofQMNWDmg-E/w-d-xo.html what is this
Casually drops that they're god T.T
Moral of the story: Make the building easy to build so the engineers don't kill you.
Then try to explain to your client why they can't have their origami crane house in terms they'll understand, give up & just tell them they can't afford it.
Hahaha yeah
My dad is engineer LOL
@@treazure lmao
Yes from an EE standpoint as well lul
In Korea we say "the smarter you are, the faster you quit" when it comes to being in architectural fields.
I’m 16 and I’m aspiring to be an architect I’m scared for my life 💔💔
@@Blehwig As you are a student, if you have enough time to prepare for what is coming, then you can do a lot better :) It is a long way to go, but if you like this field, give it a shot! Sorry for late answer
@@Carambolases yepp I’ll put in my best :)
Why? 🥲
I quit after one semester haha
Dom: “What is this thing in the middle of the room?”
Me, yelling at the screen: “A COLUMN!”
i’m sorry but i’m never calling a pillar a column
@@anthonydo4305 That's not the worst of it though. Each column has their own name you need to learn. And it changes depending on the Base and Top part as well.
I was thinking pillar. Lol
I had thought “support beam”, which is accurate
IT'S PIKACHU!
Dude, I don't mind people boasting about their degrees. You've worked hard for it. Your parents/you worked hard to pay for it. And if you were on a scholarship, you definitely deserve it. Go on and be proud, Dom!
If the people around you think it’s rude to talk about your education or finance, then your around the wrong people.
Except for.. Well, the situation where you hate it so much and wish you'd never waste your time on it.. so maybe he's not that proud about it after all?
(I'm still interested to listen about it though)
@@SophiteSomewhere Indeed, I was a young and very interested in architecture kid. When shit hit the fans, I realize that architecture is just like senior high school, but tailored to make your life worst in 5 years. I gave up in the idea of even applying in collage for Architect. passing grade here in mindanao, Philippines is 75% if you can atleast get 75% then your passed.
@@kaliberaiz8703 Lol same, Im also from mindanao and took archi just bc i like art in general but I realize it wasnt for eveyone and I heared a lot of bad insights about this course, so yeah. I honestly dont know if i should still continue this career, though Im just 3 months Archi student haha. BTW can i get get an update from you?
As a current architecture student who is about to graduate from a 5 year bachelor's program and actually does want to do this stuff, I have to say that approximately 90% of this video is accurate.
Out of curiosity, what is the inaccurate 10%
@@kylelikesmusic9458 As an architect or architectural critic might say, you have to feel it.
@@kylelikesmusic9458 But seriously, the only parts that are "inaccurate" in my opinion are purely opinionated and based on design choice. For example, to some (like Frank Gehry), the sharp awkward angles of some designs are chic and perfectly tolerable. When preparing drawings for a client, you may need more than just the three basic drawing types Domics mentioned (i.e. you may need perspectival drawings, material texture diagrams, and 3D models/views to show a client).
@@WestJanaro623 the question is ...was the school hard for you or not 😀
Well, I'm going into architecture for a few years. My parents and guidance counselor laughed when I said I wanted a PhD. I haven't said I want to travel halfway across the world to get another degree in interior design
Love how Dom basically just explained the 4 years of Architecture material for free
The fact that his professors went to ROM just to shit on them is dedication.
It’s part of teaching or showing the students what bad design is 😂
@@meitoonz3961 exactly.
I read this as defication and thought it was still normal
My professors hate a specific architect so much that I think they would probably fund a trip to Spain just to shit on his designs
@@marcellamarques5568 I can only say money well spent haha. But on the bright side, future architects will know what not to design and design more functional and sustainable buildings.
I once read that, “an architect’s dream, is an engineer’s nightmare” and after watching this video, it explains a lot
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
as a third year architecture student, yes, I am starving and yes I paid $20 for two pieces of cardboard to make a model
I paid $100 for a mandatory 1:50 laser cut model in my fourth year that the teachers didn’t even look at... -_-
@@MrMono009 at least you got a cool laser cut model?
@@flyingllama87 That's true...
im still a kid...enjoy depression loser, i still got 5 months until high school
@E_xistential Crisis find a good school maybe with a 5 year program 😭 my education rn is a joke bc I switched over from another degree and can’t transfer
"If it's anoying to build, it's probably a bad design"
Dubai architects: 👀
Dubai is a weird place. On one hand, the buildings are beautiful and impressive. On the other, they're useless for the people that actually live there, and instead are made just for toruists and fame. Similar things can be said about a lot of really big structures and Dubai as a whole.
@@matthewlong7547 the Burj khalifa doesn't even have a sewer system at the upper floors? 😂
@@archikid16REALLY?!
As someone from dubai who’s going to study architecture, the accuracy of this made me laugh hard😭
as Someone who took up architecture AND also is named Dominic, this is by far the most relatable video of you i have ever seen i feel like crying.
You must felt really attacked XDDDDD
Course doesn't matter. I've seen so many people graduating and getting a job that has nothing to do with what they studied, but they did pretty well
@@NJVArtimations wish me be one of them ....*sigh*
@@NJVArtimations Architecture is a respectable degree too. So you can go into many industries with it regardless
Hey guess who just completed Architecture school and doesn't want to be an architect.
This is probably the most relatable video you've made for me.
😖😓 i don't even know how I ended up in architecture
Amen brother. I only have 2 semesters left and I can only think that I want to make a living of my art instead of buildings that are a litteral agony to make in every step.
Sprite
@@pabloiriqui6128 dude.... i don't know why but most architects have i seen happen to be good artists (heck i draw myself..), is that a thing?
Just graduated with my degree in landscape architecture and I will never be able to look at a park or garden the same ever again....I just wanted to become an artist. .-.
Domics as an architect : "mind the engineer"
me as one of those poor souls of engineers : "thank you my lord you had said the words we wanted to hear"
@Jiffy I should build sniper towers you say?
th-cam.com/video/ofQMNWDmg-E/w-d-xo.html what is this
I know very few people will end up reading this because this video is a year old and there are thousands of other comments, but I have to share my thoughts.
As a current architecture student I can say this is just one approach to architecture school, sure form follows function is important, especially in practice, but architecture is SO MUCH MORE than just playing tetris with box-shaped rooms and seeing what you end up with. There are entire rich histories and theories behind different movements and styles. Architects have the opportunity to react to and reshape the local context, while creating interesting and memorable experiences. Just designing for utility repeats the boring "buildings" of everyday life. I think you are getting at this idea at 3:00 and 5:42, but I wish you had more than just the two sentences..
Also, sometimes space that is not directly useable is not necessarily 'wasted' space. Take a look at the Bagsvaerd Church by Jorn Utzon, sure the sweeping ceiling curves are not "useful", sure you can't put furniture there, but the height and the light are absolutely essential to the experience of the space. It shows to you that you have entered a holy place. Now I am not arguing for pure formalism, I'll join you in hating on the Royal Ontario Museum, but not just because it has a bunch of awkward corners, but because the building totally(and literally) imposes itself on the context, with no apparent reference to the city.
However I can completely relate to hating the experience. If there is one thing that connects all architecture students it is that we love to complain about our workload.
that reminds me, there’s a church where I live that looks like a giant UFO with a large point sticking out of it. You can’t use the large point, but if you go inside the church, it creates a good sense of wonder because it looks really cool from the inside and from the outside
Interesting comment and I agree. Architecture is clearly not for everyone but that's for each person to find out as you delve deeper into practice. I hated it till my third year when it finally clicked in place for me. Some of my friends till their final year 💀
Also, I thought the channel owner said they did architectural science which was for 4 years. Is that different from a traditional 5 year course? Maybe their experiences are different?
@@SaffariRose From my understanding the main difference is that a 4 year degree, either a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture isn't necessarily a studio-based curriculum. In the US at least they also are not accredited by the organization that controls licenses, so the programs don't allow you to get licensed and practice on your own. As opposed to the 5 year Bachelor of architecture, 4 year degrees may not cover all the classes/topics that allow you to critically engage with the theory, or understand enough of how a building goes together, develop your design process, etc.
I can only speak for my experience, so I have no idea what the creator learned in their program, or what any specific 4 year degree is missing, and there is no way to summarize 4 years of painful study in an 8 minute video, but it sounds like their school was much more focused on building science rather than theory & architectural discourse. Obviously there are many different equally valid approaches to architectural education, personally I am glad I am in the 5 year program I chose, even if I still sometimes question why I am here with the daily onslaught of assignments and deadlines.
yeah, this "form follows function" thing is very basic. The reality is that function also follows form, and that form can sometimes just follow the "significance" of the space and what the architect want to convey. Architecture is away too complex to just accept boxes.
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Why did I leave my art major and switch a happier English major? Because I was barely 18 and my art teacher yelled at me for 20 minutes for using the wrong shade of red on the first day.
I thought art especially colours supposed to be expressions of the artist?
@@fadel_rama I mean you'd be right. But explain that to art professors who think they know everything and that you should be humbled they are paying you attention
@@IngenuityFortress well that's suck
@@fadel_rama By the sound of it, they had more issues than this and a teacher should never yell at a student but art class also isn't just screw off and paint whatever time ether. Like if the teacher gave an assignment to draw something with three specific shades of red and someone used the wrong one technically they're in the wrong. I hope that awful teacher didn't crush any of Groovy's passion but that teacher probably ruined someone's life in their career tbh.
@@fadel_rama Sure. Now write a thesis on why that shade of red is meaningful and adds to the piece.
Oh you're a first year student who just wants to make pretty pictures? TF are you doing here, there are tutorials on youtube if you want to do that, you don't need a degree to make cool shit people want to buy. You go to art school to learn why using one shade of red will have lasting meaning over another shade of red and how you can use that to your advantage to convey meaning in your work.
I'm proud of my degree, not because it's helped me get a job but because the education I received and the experiences there help me produce better work... which helps me get work.
As someone who is graduating Architecture undergrad this semester, the best advice I can give is: If it’s not the final review, perfecting something all night is something you should not do. Your professor will look at it for 1 minute and tell you to completely change it. Iteration and variations are key to having a lot to show, especially digitally. Milk the heck out of small changes in your iterations.
i can relate to this on a spiritual level. the teachers tell you to change something every week, no matter how much work you did. they just want to see you tried everything before deciding on what fit most
Yeah I hated this so much. Every week "change everything". Never any let-up. Always all nighters before the final crit because EVERY drawing always had to be changed!!
@@MonnyArcadethe worst was my first year, where we had a projekt we had to draw by hand entirely. Not only does it not look as clean as computer drawings but it also took so much longer.... After again changing everything i had to draw 6 A0 papers in one week, and that wasnt event the only thing i had to do that week. I slept almost none that week >.>
@@sarahbosch9660 yep I feel you because same!! Our first project in first year was entirely hand drawn too. Our first two projects, I think actually. But tbh redrawing digitally sometimes took me almost as long as redrawing physically 😂
@@MonnyArcade xD but redrawing digitally is so much faster when you only have to change certain details
As a first year architecture student, I can confirm that nearly all of this is accurate. I had a prof compare our first drawings to Van Gogh and tell us we sucked. We’re first years. No shit.
Edit: I’m coming across this video again and am now in my third year, with two internships under my belt. Like some people said below, architecture is not for the faint of heart but if you love it you can go far. The attitude of my profs has gotten better as we progressed, and I’ve made some great friends. Also, the professional world is very unlike school. It’s much more collaborative and supportive, and it’s okay to not know things. My supervisors who have been in the field for 10+ years frequently google things.
TLDR, don’t pursue architecture if you aren’t passionate about it. If you are passionate about it, find a good support network and stick with it, it’ll be so rewarding in the long run.
I’m a second year student, listen to the third year
i'm not in architecture school, but i trust the second and third year person
Im a fifth yr doing my thesis, and i still dont know what im doing 😂
Im a turtle 🐢
I graduated 2 years ago. Am stuck without a job and pursuing 3D Modeling as my passion instead..
I fell in love with architecture as a 7 year old when I visited my best friend (whose dad is a draftsman). By 12, I drew the floor and elevation plans for my parents' first house, and drew the floor plans for my grandmother's house a few years after. All without taking a single architecture class. At 25, I designed my current house and it's quite the marvel for those that visit.
Though I loved and still love architecture so much, I ended up studying computer science in school and now practice Brand Design.
I'm 29 now, and still desire to study architecture in college up to the Masters Degree level not because I want to practice it as a professional, but simply because I love it so much.
I think for anyone who is passionate about something, no matter how stressful it is, it will feel like a fun ride begging to be done all over again.
Glad to find someone else who truly likes it. I'm from a family of engineers, mostly a lot of software engineers. My grandpa was a popular civil engineer before retiring (still does some work), and my dad is an engineer and architect both. My dad has a private company which he started by himself and he's the CEO of it. Growing up, I've always admired him, and I've always been intrigued by buildings and structures. It has been my dream since a kid. I also used to attend drawing classes for almost 8 years and have many medals and certificates in it. Everyone calls me an amazing artist and even though recently I haven't had the chance to practice much, I enjoy it. I've been scared on seeing how almost every single person despises the course, how everyone says it's one of the most hardworking degrees and how it's worthless. I feel saddened by it. But coming from a family background where everything mostly revolves around buildings, and my dad himself being a very popular person in town for his work, I'm not going to give up. I'm about to finish high school and I'm ready for the challenge ahead. It may be difficult, but I'm not going to give up on something I've truly always dreamt of
As a current architecture student thank you for validating me and how much I cry. Everything hurts
No one knows what we go through
Gang Gang
Wait why is it so bad? I’ve been debating on going to college for it
@@avayoung9396 it’s not bad or hard. The problem is that it’s time consuming and a lot of college students don’t know how to time manage properly. I’m already in my last semester for my bachelors and I learned how to juggle my daily schedule with work, school, and extracurricular activities.
@@eugenedebs3281 oh okay, thank you for responding
dom: architecture school is hell
me, wanting to be a architectural engineer: [chuckles] i'm in danger
*you do you bud*
Don't do it bro, architect here
@@oscarcheung5893 why
@@ci9247 just go on any architect meme page and you will find plenty of reasons. But I can list a few: 1. years on years of education as pre-requisite, 2. yet most likely you won't learn much until you practice. 3. Hardly any pay : the salary in my city is considered high globally, yet the pay has not risen in over a decade so even if it was once a decent occupation, it no longer is. 4. You will waste your life dedicated to it, you end up having no social life with the terrible hours you often have to work. 5. Tasteless clients and government departments will squeeze every ounce of design out of your creation, leaving almost no satisfaction for those who complete their work. 6. Even if you end up working for a big office with interesting portfolio, the work is done in production line style studio environment that the architects often don't learn how to build real practical buildings.
@@ci9247 and although school was hell, it's only the starter and nothing compared to the main course
"An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare"
-some engineering students out there
Same goes with "an astronaut's dream is the government's nightmare"
as a Civil Engineer I can verify this maygad
This sounds like a line from the "Well There's Your Problem" podcast
This engineer right here. Be kind to us architects
same with "composers dream is a performers nightmare"
I am on the Way to finish my Masters Degree in Architecture and my advise to People asking if they should study architecture always is: just do it if you are genuinely interested in it! Else you don't have the motivation to get trough all these sleepless nights and missing free days. I don't have weekends and because of that i can be very hard to meed friends. But if you like it it's really rewarding seeing a project work out! =D
One can only hope your designs are double-checked and proof-read more thoroughly than your written compositions. Retired Science teacher here, and while I hate to be pedantic, a Masters candidate in ANY discipline should know the following: Way = way, 'advise' is a verb, 'advice' is the noun which is given when one advises; Architecture/architecture -- when named as a field of study, it is being used as a proper noun and hence always capitalized; if used as a merely descriptive noun , e.g. 'the architecture of that building...' (similar to 'the height of that building...') then it is not; 'don't' is the Present Tense Negative form of 'do', 'won't' is the Future Tense Negative form of 'will'; i = it, meed = meet; comma between it and it's. BTW, EVERYONE 'has' weekends, you need a modifier after that word to clarify your intent, e.g. I don't have weekends free, etc.
I only mention these points to give student viewers cause to think: if one hands a set of blueprints, or a resume, to someone, with grammatical errors which LEAP out at the reader, how can they then trust any of your math? Building component dimensions (critical!!), calculations for material quantities, stress-load levels, building time, etc.? It's not that Math and English are the exact same skill set, it's the fact that the writing wasn't double-checked, so it would be understandable if they didn't trust anything else you presented.
Our language and the skill to utilize it properly have been denigrated over the past decades to the point where it is now considered a waste of time to be accurate in one's speech and writing. It is, however, JUST as important as it ever was.......unless one WANTS to go into a job interview and be passed over because of inadequate language skills. Remember, it is often not WHAT one knows, it is the fact that one applied oneself to learn it, that gets you the job, or promotion, scholarship, or commission, etc..
PS TO EVERYONE: DON'T use programs like 'grammarly' (lower-case deliberate) to avoid having to improve one's linguistic skills; IMPROVE THEM yourself.
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@@davidschmidt6013 one can only hope you can find comments where this kind of answer is called for.
I am so sorry for english not beeing my main language and i really don't care of you liked my grammar and sentence structure in an online comment
@@sarahbosch9660 I can't even tell what's wrong with your comment
@@you_gullible_fucc me neither. My Auto correct on WhatsApp often Changes words according to german grammar (like if a word starts with an lowercase alphabet or not) but if someone searches for grammar the comment Section of online Communitys are the worst place to Look. Its not like i will write this way in my Thesis xD
@@davidschmidt6013 Bruh.
As an engineering student who’s dating an architecture student, I can confirm that most of these are correct. I’ve also helped her quite a bit with her studios to get her thinking about how different elements of the structure would be practical and how different materials and lighting can affect moments in and around the building.
man you and your gf are my future dream lmao, i always want a man who do some engineering stuff so i can see whats wrong with my design. Hope you get along with your gf 💕
As an architecture student, I can TOTALLY RELATE TO professors shitting on building designs. I recently had my midterm case study critique and my professor called one student’s diagram “disappointing”.
Like don't they get buildings can come in more than one design, always changing shit till it's the same boring thing
Huhu they don't sht on my building now cus it's online class and i dont hre their judgement that much now 😂
haha.. you think "disappointing" is harsh? try "shit", "terrible" "impossible" or "a BIG X"
You know it’s going to be a good video when dom mentions architecture
I know right
*Architorture
As a studying Architecture student this video had me laughing 🤣😂 this was so funny , honestly if you want to make a non- functional buillings at that point it's just a huge sculptor. School is hard frustrating and confusing 😭 but I don't hate it and I'm excited for what's next .
it would be a shame if everyone in architecture school hated it. No need to study what you dislike.
So basically, make a huge ugly box that will be torn down in 30 years and call it a day, spoken like a true modernist
@@Georges_Haussmann LOL, I forgot I even watched this video 😅 came to comment and here I am lol 😂. But yeah my stand is pretty much the same a year later, I am also pursuing a minor in facility management now, not that you probably care lol. 😌 How functional a building is and the human condition is what's most important to me.
I don't like the idea of wasted space or resources for a unique looking building. An ideal building for me is one that is both beautiful and functional; but I'd sacrifice functionality over a unique look any day. If an empty box fits the program and best serves the community around it than so be it 🤷🏾♀️.
When you enter architecture school you unlock a new trauma that is presenting a project and having it DESTROYED by the teachers who were supposed to help you
I'm having flashbacks aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yep just had that on Friday. We had gotten feedback for weeks leading up to the critique and somehow my project was fine until the critique
Wait, i'm a freshman, is that a thing that actually happens? ;;
@@syk4517 yes young one 😞
Uhhh i am 15 and i wanted to be a comic artist but my parents forced me to be an architect... Is being an architect that scary?
“You wanna know how much my Prof’s hated the ROM? They took us out. To the ROM. To s**t on it’s design during the tour.”
Now THAT’S dedication.
To be honest, can’t blame em. The rom looks cool but has so many dead ends, the interior decorators work hard to make the dead ends look good,
@@mcpugh This is very true.
The dead ends stood out to me, even as a kid.
No that's stupid, how much in cash did they shell out just to complain? Why not use internet photos, it would be cheaper and easier.
@@Preposter how much did it cost, or was it free to enter?
@@jacobc8036 I don't know the exact price but it costs a bit.
I have a friend that works there now so I get discounts now and then.
As a second year archi student, I can confirm that yes we are: broke, stressed and tired
Second year archis unite!
@@karak1366 pain
4th year permanent eye bags here
Minh Ngoc Tran I can’t wait. It’ll be like rings on a tree
@@minhngoctran7271 I'm working 23 hours a week too so I'm officially a part of sleepless elite
I’m in my second year and the critics of the professor after spending 2 all nighters to finish a project are soul crushing, because you have to start again. Can honestly say its not a program you should take unless you absolutely want to be an architect
thats crazy. ive never been interested in engineering, but i am taking stem related classes next year just because I thought i would like architecture because of the "art" aspect. I thought it'd be better to go into a career where it uses my skills instead of just artistic talent lol
I hate when people say that last phrase. People need to outline EVERYTHING that is entailed in this bloody major-from all-nighters (whether caused from poor time management or work-overload) to loneliness and loneliness to redos/revisions. Don’t get me started on the limited creativity that one has as “professor is always right”…
Back in 4th grade, we had a whole unit on columns and the different types. Glad it finally paid off for this one video. Thanks, school!
NEVER THANK THAT SHITTER OF A BUILDING
Me too
Mine was in 3rd but nonetheless I didn't think it would pay off
"it is more of a testament to how long I can endure hating myself" I'm getting a bachelors degree in chemistry in June, and I feel this
Computer science major graduating this year too and I also hate my life
Have two years left in my electrical engineering degree. Sleeping is only optional
Sir should i pursue chemistry?
I'm currently on my first year of taking architecture and that statement felt accurate.
@@RicolaOnTheRocks only if memorizing chemical mechanisms/trends and engaging in quantum mechanics sincerely interests you. Otherwise don't torture yourself
I once watched a friend of mine agonize over an architecture project and absentmindedly said why not make the building round like a igloo, cause I think the premise of the project was to create a building that was unique to the environment it was created. I swear to god my friend turned his head 180 degrees and went on a hour long tangent about how that wouldn’t work, would need custom building material, a dome can’t be that wide, something about useless corners, and finally he ended by shouting ‘curved doors!’
Then we went out and smoked and he said, “Maybe the doors wouldn’t be curved” under his breath.
I don’t know how you folks function.
I don’t know how I’m functioning either
I could not focus or sleep this week because I hit an inspiration block and I was constantly trying to find a way to make a room im designing for school work. This is def not the career for everyone. 🥴
this is the funniest comment i have ever seen, thank you for sharing
I love and hate this
Lmao wth
my sister also picked a career she doesn't really like (graphic design, it wasn't what she expected), but she's so close to finish, she won't stop until she graduates, so... this gives me hope she will self-sustain from her illustrations
All of those years of architecture school should mean you're a god at building in The Sims. . .
oh trust me!! As an interior architect I really hate building in the sims... The sims is a game... I want to enjoy it and take my mind out of work. I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY FLOOR PLAN / PLACE ANY CHAIR OR ELSE I'LL KILL MYSELF...
haha really though. I'm usually buying fully furnished houses because of that
@@igamisoy98 This is oddly comforting, lol. I hate building in the sims, so knowing that an architect is hitting up the gallery too makes me feel better about my lack of building skills/enjoyment.
This video gave me flashbacks..to my short time in architecture school. My profs ALSO hated on the ROM (some of them praised it..the artsy ones)
Sims not as much. Minecraft is pretty fun though. It definitely allows you to think spacially about space making objects vs objects making space.
In my introductory week in interior design school someone asked 'who is here because of the sims?' and almost everyone raised their hand.
my takeaway: Maybe I DON’T wanna be an architect and want to pursue my actual dreams as a staving dancer
Same
Same
Better to starve doing something you like than starve doing something you don’t really wanna do
@@chrisperez8292 It’s kind of hard when the options are either to starve doing something you like or live comfortably doing something you don’t like.
@@Brey__ yeah I understand. We all got tough decisions to make but I feel like some things are worth the risk if it’s something I’m passionate about.
"What is this structure called?"
Me, a person who knows nothing about architecture but grew up playing the Sims games: That's a column!
And they say games can't teach you anything 😂.
You can be a good architect.
Perhaps it is time to enter architectural science program? 😅
I knew that without playing sims ever in my life
Yeah, games do teach you things. Specifically if it is a hard game and you want to beat it legit, it teaches strategic thinking, resource management, learning from failures and memory
English is my second language but I learned i lot of English word through games
You could totally learn lots of architecture from games that's cool
As a resent graduated structure engineer student who just join the work force, I don’t think we will hate those design, we are just going to charge you a “reasonable” high price.
Really?? I want do do both architecture and structural engineering
Well you know what they say; “An Architect’s dream is an Engineer’s worst nightmare.”
@Spatza What does that have anything to do with what he just said?
@Spatza No one asked
@@professortamarack683 he copy pastes it In alot of Vids, just ignore him
@Spatza very edgy
@Spatza I DON'T CARE
I would just add to this, being a licensed architect is like being a lawyer for buildings.
You mean a building lawyer that is not paid as much as an actual lawyer 🌚
And having your PE is like playing "will this get be sued by a builder lawyer" for work every day all day
What do you mean by that Muhammad?
How so? I'm genuinely curious.
@@whatif6821 i guess coz it's law related? architects has to follow different laws when designing and has to explain to the clients or non architects why certain actions are not allowed in a building or in a type of lot.
“Nervous laughs in first year architecture student only a few weeks in” *I’m in danger*
me too me too😅
samee. this is going to be a long journey..
my fourth year, uhm....good luck....
Already a first year student...
Me: yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.......I....
Please help me
SAME GIRL
As a person aspiring to go to architecture school, this video both inspired me and now has me terrified
Dom: architecture school is hell
Me who is planning to study architecture: what have I done.
Run!
Same lol, too late to change now tho.
Lol despite the harsh reality in the field of architecture, expense etc im still doing it, if you love doing it, if its a passion something you want to accomplish, then no matter how hard, you'll want to keep going .... lol ik I probably took it seriously though it may be a joke lol, but I just had to say if anyone is unsure ... have a blessed day ❤
@@jovi512 I agree. Going for the money only gets you so far if you hate what you do to earn it. Architecture is definitely worth a lot of merit and value if you are really wanting to build (pun intended) a design-related career. Like professional engineering, you get out what you put in and indirectly learn. I graduated with my B.Arch a while back and do boutique interior remodels and new design-builds where I work closely with fabricators, manufacturers, material storyboarding, and in Revit to get ideas for clients out. Almost there on hours for CIDQ.
Run forest run!
As someone who spent 2 years in architecture program this is 100% accurate and exactly how I felt. I had to change majors, couldn't handle it. Best decision of my life.
if it's alright, may i ask what major you went to after architecture? im currently at the tail end of my 2nd year but im planning to change for the next school year
@@starknit I changed my major to Studio Art, because I love art and love to draw and paint.
@@erickvargas3280 im thinking about going into multimedia arts... thank you for the reply (:
Time to listen to Domics soothing voice for 8 straight minutes
haha ikr
School is gae
Yup.
@@sterlingarcher8041 It is
Same
If you are planning to get bachelors then you better start studying architecture on your own early: simply get the free books easily available and the softwares and start using them to make random buildings (or whichever buildings you like but make sure to cover all starting from simple) like your own simple house, or a restaurant or a college (take whatever area you already know). Trust me, you'll thank me.
Also, follow a bunch of yt channels : )
omg ty
Could you recommend some books and TH-cam channels for self learning before starting school or being in 1st year? Im struggling out here =(
Yep. I was lucky that my high school offered a semester-long course on Architectural design.
@@noushinmostafa8404 Stewart Hicks is a good guy to follow. Also Solar Sands, all though he's more general aesthetics than specifically architecture.
@@uhuhuhuhuhuh3537 thank you! This is super helpful
Me watching this as a high school student wanting to study architecture 👁👄👁
SAME HAHAH
Haha 😂... Its not so easy as it looks from outside. But it's like... If u are ready to hard work a lot.. And face the consequences in between, and if u r so passionate about it, then go ahead ok 👍😊❤️... Its an amazing major but it has itsown consequences. My 2 classmates quit the course in between bcz they couldn't handle the pressure. So it's basically u have to be strong mentally and ready to work hard a lot. ❤️
Advice from an architecture student: no, unless you don't need sleep and really really love it!
and you need a lot money for the models, printing (everytime fucking time I need to print in A0), softwares. rip wallet
Good luck mate
me, about to become an architecture student: *nervous sweating*
Time to change your major because of some random verified youtuber lol.
Well you should ask some of the students of the university how they teach students and then make a decision
Unless your passionate about architecture, I would strongly suggest looking at related fields. I probably would've dropped if I didn't love architecture. The struggle I put up with for the last two years was brutal. Thankfully I'm going abroad for my 3rd year fall semester.
run. run while you still have your youth.
It's not that bad, it is collective torture though. If you truly love it and organized chaos, you'll fit right in!
Yesterday I was writing a script for my new vid and cried that TH-cam made it 8 minutes instead of 5 xD
It used to be ten!! Stretching an animation to ten minutes proved futile to me, 7 min was a long enough script to call it.😂
@@EggGorlComics wait it’s not 10 anymore? When did it change?
@@MrCScottie recently
@@aloe7215 more. 4 I think
@@aloe7215 in like november 2020?
1982 was wanting to be an architect. My dream for 20 years, as long as I could remember. Went to work as a draftsman in a large engineering firm, in the piping department. Talked to the lead architect on my first project. He told me. “Don’t become an architect!!! I went to seven years of school, bachelors degree in architecture engineering, a degree in interior design, and now after 15 years as an “architect” here (th company we both worked) I spend my days designing control room out of CMU and specifying “battleship gray” paint over and over. You’ll never be the next Frank Lloyd Wright!!!” I stayed in piping, retired at 58 and still love architecture. Thank you Lou!! You helped me dodge a bullet!!
The biggest truth is that teachers kind of expect you to know everything since the get-go, and mock you when you don't.
My teachers would answer every question with: "you are a student now, it's your job to find all the information on your own". Then why do I need a teacher then? I could just chill at home self-studying and not wasting my time.
@@zagubionemysli exactly
This was my 1st year going in
Referring to ask a classmate
I'm just paying for the certification at this point
@@zagubionemysli I'm not paying thousands of dollars to "Find information on my own"
@@zagubionemysli I want to say to that teacher "I want my tuition back."
Ikr I’m currently in my first grade of scool and me teacher give us a lot of work I do not want work and I want fortnite 😖😖😾😾🤮
It's funny as a fine arts major we had an assignment to create one of those engineering nightmare and non-functional buildings and our prof gave a whole lecture on how those buildings are so much better than boring "normal" buildings
Yeah right??
As someone currently in their second year of civil engineering, they might seem like it, but there is a reason we have nightmares about them. No way can you genuinely get the building to stand
Artists are off in their own made-up world
well takes is as a lesson, so construction workers wont get your head on a pike :3
An opposite example:
In my city they took out the bus stops made of brick and wood benchs at parks and replace them by steel "functional" ones, they are all grey and ugly AF, because the designer was an architect.
the lamps are fine tho, have a futuristic touch to them, but everything else it's almost like Hostile architecture for everyone.
And my city is in a touristic zone! and semi-urban at that.
how a little town is supposed to bring tourist when we have gray ugly pieces in almost every street?
Keep the lamp! but we need murals! excentrics status, weird playgrounds, and stilish benches!
@@roryh2919 yes I totally agree and understand! I just found the difference in what they teach arch majors vs fine arts majors rlly funny
The thing architecture and art students have most in common: Insomnia and professors shitting on their work.
Every year or so I remember the youtubers I used to watch so often in my childhood, and it’s always makes me so happy when some of them are still making videos. Domics is one of those youtubers and I can’t describe this feeling of inexplicable happiness I feel seeing that he’s continuing to make great quality, entertaining videos. It feels like I’m back in those good ol days, watching this video, so thank you domics! For continuing to make videos and choosing TH-cam over architecture!
Your videos really shaped my worldview and sense of humor in the olden days lol
Welcome back to ' Dom's aspiring architect viewers have another existential crisis '
lol
lmao truuuee
As an engineering student (not even in civil, but in mechanical), I laughed at every bit of "the engineers will have your head". We make so much fun of you guys. Both Architecture and Business majors, alike.
Don't worry, us structural engineers make fun of the mechanicals too. When we ask for the specs of the RTUs, we don't want the whole damn cut sheet with all the CFSs and BTUs, I just want to know the outer dimensions and the weight.
Lol some guy in my differential equations class be like "If you think about it, architecture is for engineers who cant do math and artists who cant do art"
What’d Business majors do to you 😭
@@javonbonsu545 they are rich... :P
@@javonbonsu545
m o n e y
When the world needed him the most he returned
YESSSS
When the world wants you to stop copying this comments 🙄.
oh my god wow youre so original
@@marin3230 bro you caught me to it. I was about to say the same thing
He upload a month ago lmao
As someone who's also stuck between doing animation & doing architecture, I loved this.
I'm actually not phased despite what you said, bc before this video, I saw an architect and an engineer discuss plans for an island home & felt totally entranced. The fact that they made a cute mockup (a cardboard or plastic 3D model of a structure, like those you may see in malls, of the mall itself) reminded me of when I used cereal boxes to make small houses as a kid. I thought looking into the world of civil engineering would scare me out of it... but I fell in love with it even more.
I never thought about how our buildings, bridges, dams, military bases, highways, space shuttles, sewage systems, etc are all thanks to a _vast_ array of engineers. I want to learn to animate & be a youtuber who shares my funny self, but I also wanna be a part of that world. Seeing those two professionals talk about the types of beams to use, the degree to which the soil inclines & how that affects stability, even which way the wind blew- it fascinated me. So... I'm gonna try to enhance both skills for now, 'cause I'm not giving up on either option. 😊
You’re literally in the same exact position as me!! I’m torn between architecture and animation. Working for Disney has been like a childhood dream for me and architecture is something I am encouraged to do because of everyone saying I’m “smart”
@@rockinggirl0610 Good luck dude, I hope you choose what makes you happy in the end! We'll get through this!
@@spaghetto9836 thank you! i think im going to talk to my architect friends and see what i can do
How's it going 😂
@@archikid16 I just graduated high school a month ago with an A+ on my project thesis! 💃🎉🎊
I'm taking a few months off to get my life in order before college (take internships to gain experience, get a driver's license, etc), bc I suspect I have ADHD & would not be able to do all that at the same time (I was already struggling nearing the graduation, so I'd very well be the type of ADHDer to start flopping by university). I'm looking to get diagnosed, but for now I still don't wanna quit this field. It's become pretty much a special interest/hyperfixation.
About animation, I'm still learning art tips on paper & have greatly improved, although it's hard to pick up a habit of practicing bc of my symptoms. My older bro already agreed to get me a drawing tablet soon to try things out, to which I am grateful. Things seem to be going okay for now.
Mark was an engineer and Domics was an architect and Seán was a hotel manager - these guys could make and run their own hotel 😂
Edit: Spelt Seán wrong lol
LMAO TRUE
also his name is spelled Seán c:
And mr beast can promote it!
omg it could be an extension of the gaming cafe! Gaming hotel lmao. The higher floors are for more quiet games like Animal Crossing and the lower floors are for more intense vs/co-op games like Smash or Among Us
Oh my god
Dis dude just came up with a millionare idea
“East and west windows are inferior to the north and south facing windows because the light will be to strong”
The architect that design my house: 200,000 east and west facing windows with a million more well on there way
"Your natural lighting is very impressive. You must be proud."
"I'm a simple architect, trying to find my way in the industry."
my road goes from north to south, which makes it so that all the buildings on the street face either west or east, which makes my street all have west and east facing windows.
@@markimoss9890 My former home had the entirety of the apartment facing west. Imagine a summer sun powered oven with you as the main course.
@@ruffusgoodman4137 OOF
@@markimoss9890 me too all of our windows are either east or west facing
As an architecture student, this is painfully, frustratingly accurate
I disagree. It sounds like all his professors taught him was the modern architecture is best. Where I’m studying, you learn ABOUT modernism, but they definitely don’t drill the “form follows function” mantra into the students
👍🏻100%
th-cam.com/video/ofQMNWDmg-E/w-d-xo.html what is this
@@MrCScottie you're right
Really depends in your school, I had a lot of fun and my insomnia was there before this lol. Altho, right now I'm not working in architecture so it totally feels like wasted money more than time. Ohh welp, glad my school wasn't outrageously expensive
His little animated dance at the end is too precious, I just love it
I feel like the exit door thing should be thought as standard in school so we don't spend 10 minutes figuring out which way it opens
Ground floor doors always open outwards. Doors to stairs (upper floors) always open into stairs. This is so that in case of emergency, you just push your way out.
So basically, you should make it so that the person will push the door when doing something unconsciously?
Well, psychologically that's true i suppose? We'll unconsciously push things out of the way, not pull things out of the way. Hence why you push hotel doors inside
Lucky for my school, our doors opened in both directions xD
I mean doors mostly open 2 ways...
@@reitheinsolvable7380 we’re talking about whether you push or pull. If you actually mean that most doors can be pushed either way, where in the world do you live? No, like, seriously i wanna see that
In my opinion, when someone goes to college for that long and spent years of hard work, you have 100% the right to brag about it any time you want. In fact even if you only have an associates degree, you have the right to brag because it’s years of hard work and dedication.
Yeah but I can understand why he wouldn't want to brag with that degree
A 4-year Bachelor's of Science in Architecture (the same degree I'm finishing out) is actually kind of worthless because it doesn't satisfy professional requirements by itself. Most people who take that degree have to finish out a 2 year accredited grad program to have their proper qualifications, so if he really hated architecture and ended up with a degree that can't actually land him a job in an architectural field by itself, then he's got some reasonable contempt w/it for sure
th-cam.com/video/ofQMNWDmg-E/w-d-xo.html what is this
I'd love to have an entire video of just the animation dancing for like 3 minutes in random bad buildings
best idea ever
I agree with the outro music from food wars
Im studying architecture (in south america btw) and I totally love it, it's not for everyone, but besides that it seems like dom's arch school was like a modernism fundamentalist school which seems rare for me. At least here, form do follow function, but it's also created by the very own creativity and feeling of the studient. If you are planning to go to architecture school, just go. :)
same here!
F*** my design professor. She is literally the worst. I really needed someone else talking about Architecture like this. Thank you so much
@@RogueOrdinary I will join you
"and stairs aren't gonna fit in nicely without the engineers wanting to put a bounty on your head for your overcomplicated design."
Me, an engineer: just the image alone make me want to stick pencils through your eyes
monkaS
I would literally die if a boy did this to me!😳❤️😍
@face i would die👀👀💀💀
An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare.
Imagining the calculation alone is a nightmare😫
Then you will hate my final project for my last semester for architectural technologist, a twin house that the whole plan look like an X... yes I regret it myself as I am doing the detail and wall sections...
"If you want an easy life, do not become an architect"
Architect Zaha Hadid.
Edit: Thank you everyone for the likes ❤
Zaha treated her employees like shit and her buildings have so many problems
1200 people died constructing her stadium in Qatar and she didn’t care
Didn't she come from a wealthy family??
Also dont become a doctor
Bebt is bad
My dad is/was an architect with PhD from one of the hardest schools in Italy. I looked at the amount of creativity that it takes to draw a few lines when I was 14, and I decided, fuck no, this is not for me. I ended up working for him after majoring something else for 8 years building houses till I decided to move on. I too have a lot of appreciation for great architectural designs. They literally make your day to day living far more vivacious. I remember there was a mansion already built somewhere, and he made a few changes to its plan, and we built it somewhere else. I could not believe what a shithole the original design was.
"boy I'm sure glad my tuition paid for someone to make fun of me for going to a lecture I'm not knowledgable about..." That honestly sums college up
Eh, never had that experience in my computer science courses.
@@buca117 lucky
3:55. As an engineer, I relate to this. I eat architects for breakfast.
What do they taste like
@@peskypigeonx Depression.
@@ruveensart6551 I guessed so
@@fluffycorn_njst Hahahah sorry some of us taste like success too. Some of us.
Uhmm... I hate my mind
The people who disliked are obviously architecture students who were so tired that they ended up missing the like button as they fell asleep
that's me accurate
i relate to dom so much, i'm studying journalism and writing books so when i see plot holes or misspelt words i cringe.
i can never look at books the same way ever again!
Their not easily readable when your constantly looking for mistakes, right?
Sorry, I just had to ^^
7:12 It's the mansion from _The Matrix Reloaded_ !
And also _A Series of Unfortunate Events_ (2004), but that was actually a different set with a similar design.
That's such a cool fact for some reason hahah
Wooh someone else knows about that! (The series of unfortunate events)
Not necessarily. There are just old mansions that are built like that
@@sefp mhm, I was about to reply something like that
@@natechicken685 I haven't watch the movies , just read the books.
When Domics uploads,the world is balanced once more.
Space?
I love the way he talks as well. His humor is also like my dad's, which I like.
Indeed
Yuh
Yessir
Architect: Honeyyyy, are you ready for your 4pm mental struggle on how youre going to make my building a thing?
The poor engineer: Yes dear
hahaha
haha
Is this a thing in the US? Even domics said in the video that the engineers will have to figure out how to build architects design except that and this joke isnt true because really the architects figures these stuff out...
@@Alkuf100 really? But civil engineers gotta do something right? And also the suppliers who need to figure out how to acquire all your curved pieces of wood. And the builders who need to put your shitty pieces of wood together into a ball. And the mechanics who try to figure out how the fuck you’re gonna get electricity and plumbing into this thing.
@@TumblinWeeds not really, here you can get a house from an architect or a construction engineer but they almost never work together on the same house. Also there is no such profession as "mechanics who try to figure out how the fuck you’re gonna get electricity and plumbing into this thing." where I work, we have consultants who help us architects make plumbing etc work but still, its definitely not like architect makes a nice drawing and 50 other made up professions figure the house out lol
I swear I'm in 10th grade of artistic school and I was insecure about doing architecture, like I wasn't sure I could handle architecture university too so I just thought that I needed to listen to someone experience so I went straight to your channel and I knew I would get satisfied. Watching to this video was fun and I found it useful, it didn't make me change my mind and it made me indeed more sure about my choice. Thank you, Dom, for inspiring me once again, I can't wait to become someone!
So 4 years of architecture school served as the prime motivation to follow your passion.
Seeing your passion for animation and creating a youtube channel it must have burned red hot, true torture xD