Do you need to be good at math to be an architect?
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00:00 Introduction
01:39 FLOOR SPACE CALCULATIONS / MASSING OF THE BUILDING
06:33 HIGH-LEVEL BUDGETING
08:11 STRUCTURE
09:31 MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES
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45 years of practice here. I’ve only ever used basic math, an understanding of percentage calculations, ratios and simple trig. An understanding of basic accounting is useful for project management and running your own practice. Structural engineers are the ones that do serious number crunching.
This answer sums it up. Don't need to make a video complicated or answers complicated.
@@spacecookie1091 pretty much all architects really do is give measurements and volume then they handed off to the structural engineer basically saying to math.
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PLEASEEE REPLY TO ME IM DESPERATE. i might be overthinking and overreacting but i need to know if i need to take add maths if i want to study architecture. Im taking physics and chemistry but i really dont want to take add maths as im very weak at maths.
@@sabihakibria8785 well the first question to ask is: What are the entry requirements for the school you plan to attend? If they require courses in math, then you have your answer.
One of of my greatest anxieties going into architecture.
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No probs 😊
You are the main inspiration and motivation for this Law graduate to pursue his suppressed Architecture aspirations, and I thank you for that. Keep up the great work.
omg good luck
Wow that’s really cool. Good luck!!
I used to love math, and still kinda do. But, for most people, the last 2 years of high school and the first 4 years of college don't have many mandatory math classes -- for the most part. Because of this, I went from a math wiz to doing math only when it's relevant. As an aspirational architect, I have to push myself back into math, or else my career will be even more difficult.
Super interesting! I had this question in mind some time ago. Clear and chill information
I am a mechnical engineer and had one course together with architects on structure. To be honest, they sucked at math, at least from my engineering perspective. But also, it's not like they need to solve any differential equations or any other complex math and thus it's completely okay. Math isn't as important for architects as engineers. What they need is creativity and a good sense of style.
i love your videos, Dami! i'm starting architecture at ubc in September and your videos have helped paint a clearer picture of the profession.
Your videos are so great. Thank you! I’m a new land arch grad. Our discipline is a bit different but a lot of your videos still apply. For us, grading & drainage is what causes night terrors. The actual equations aren’t complex but I’m lousy at math so it is my Achilles heel.
Just found you're channel I'm heading towards 2nd semester and having these videos gave me a better idea of what I have to actually focus.
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As a Software Developer intern/Comp Sci major, I can totally relate to the misconception of math genius being a requirement. Before college, I wasn't the quickest learner in math, so some teachers asked if Comp Sci was really the right path for me. Firstly, I would say who are you to say what I'm capable of (not trying to be rude, but direct). Secondly, as a rising junior with two internships under my belt, I can say confidently that I have never used more than basic algebra in my code.
Of course, there are some roles that require more of an understanding of math (i.e., a Graphics Engineers must know linear algebra), but the standard dev (i.e., Web Dev) will not need that. Skills common among Software Devs/Engineers are we like to constantly learn and solve problems. The thing concepts you need to know (i.e., Data Structures & Algorithms) you learn over time.
Ho-ly CRUD! I have been searching for a simple, realistic explanation of the math used in architecture. I have been considering changing from my interior architecture course to architecture and the only thing holding me back was my fear of having inadequate math skills. You just made my decision easy. Just submitted my change of course transfer. Thank you!
Math is needed in almost all. But no need for calculus, just basic math, percentages, ratios.
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Thanks for another interesting video, Architect Dami! Looking good, btw! 💙
Thank you so much for this video! I live in the UK and the school system here is particularly different. The grading system works in a way that if in high school you aren’t sitting ‘higher maths’, which allows you to score as high as a grade 9 (which is like an A*), then you are made to sit ‘foundation maths’. Over the years I’ve always been in higher maths until just before Covid my high school moved me to foundation maths, where the highest you can score is a grade 5 (which is like a B-). I thought I was finding higher maths quite good and understandable enough. That really knocked my self esteem because there are 4 sets of classes and if you happen to move from set 1 to set 2 (which is where I was) you are bound to foundation maths and forced to learn content only up to a grade 5. In my case my teacher for and unexplained reason refused to move me up, even though throughout the past 2 years I always scored w 5, and by the end of the year I scored a 5 in foundation maths (which was the highest I could get). I checked the Architecture entry requirements for university and you need to have studied a combination of at least: maths, science, arts and humanities. Now I need to apply for colleges and even though I got an A in physics I haven’t been allowed to study Physics in college due to my maths grade, not to even mention maths. Now I don’t know what to do on how to get into architecture. I feel like because my maths teacher never even gave me a chance despite making countless remarks about how he would allow some high achieving students to move to higher maths, when confronted on it, he told me to ”just focus on getting a 5 at best and not risk scoring anything lower in the higher maths.” I see the sentiment behind it even tho I think if I hadn’t been moved so suddenly under no grounds on actually struggling in higher maths at the time, then I would have at least been able to score a 6- 7 (B-A) and been able to meet the entry requirements in college. Now I’m basically being told that since Covid no one has given me a chance to risk it and prove that I can achieve in maths. And it doesn’t help to know that some students in higher maths got the chance to move down if they wanted to and some also flopped numerous times on exams but still didn’t get moved down. The whole situation feels to have been low key pre-meditated on my high school, I know there’s no point complaining but honestly I’ve never felt so constricted even before being able to step anywhere close to the field.
What did u choose I have the same problem but not cause of Covid just like
@@NatalieGunzel I ended up doing law, business, psychology and italian. I’m fluent in italian so got to take it as an extra a-level. I still got offers for Architecture from Russel group unis. So at last it’s all working out by God’s Grace.
@@NatalieGunzel maths and sciences are preferred by many unis but upon going in on open days hosted by my university choices and speaking to professionals on campus I was reassured on that fact that it’s not a requirement. also remember to focus on your portfolio equally as well, as you must show at least some proficiency in art and creative thinking. However some unis may focus more on the scientific aspects of architecture so will credit those subjects more, it’s down to the unis of your choice and their criteria.
Hi dami, i'm an achitecture student from Brazil, I've always seen your posts on instagram, but just today i came here to your youtube channel. I really like your content, and you speak in a very easy way to understand (english is not my main language). I always hear from people like "OMG do you study architecture? You might be very good at math" but I don't actually xD, if you dominate the math basis you can go well in the course.
Note: You look a lot like one of my teachers (you both are very clever, beautiful and are very didatic)
YEEESSS, I am an architecture and urbanism student in Brazil, right now I'm doing an assignment of structural calculus of metal structures, VERY HARD (for me) I hope I don't have to do this as a professional lol
Man, ... that is probably why one of my doors is higher than the ceiling, ... they probably didn't use Math.
😂😂😂
I failed calculus four times at the University at Buffalo, it was a prerequisite for all the courses that I did pass, primarily 'structures'. My first academic advisor waved me after I passed 'Structures 1', but then the State Board of Regents ruled that academic advisors could not do that, so after 5 years (2000-2005) of failing that prerequisite, I left college without my degree in architecture or urban planning. Since then, I have worked as a hotel porter at a Marriott in Saratoga Springs, a building designed by bad architects, they placed the boiler room (which leaks) over the main electrical room.
Hard to design stuff like stadiums and airports ( eg Canadian architect Moshe Safdie) require much more math and creative engineering acumen. I saw a documentary where there was a difficult engineering solution and the architect came up with the better solution to the structural engineer.
Im a transfer student in my first year of my schools architecture program, now I don't feel so terrified by my statics class. Thank you for this video!
I hate math and realise its grave mistake to take carrier like engineering but I really start recovering
I love the humor I giggled in all the videos I've seen so far
Thank you that vid is really helpful thanks ☺️
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To the question "Do I need math?" there's gonna be a lot of "I've never used anything but basic math" answers. Someone even wrote that "Structural engineers are the ones that do serious number crunching". I once even read a comment "I haven't used the Pythagorean theorem yet today." and the author was suggesting that this argument proves that it's completely unnecessary to teach it to any young elementary school student at all, since he or she is apparently satisfied with what he or she understands to be "his or her own common sense" (whatever that means to anyone).
It's just that much more important than being able to calculate a particular problem is gaining "understanding". This is the thing that cannot be acquired except by gradually building up a foundation in mathematics and practicing and calculating and making mistakes and tormenting the brain. And then, when we forget how to compute the concrete, complex problems we were taught to compute in school, we are left with the really important things that can be gained by studying mathematics: the ability to break down a large problem into sub-problems, to reason and infer logically, to understand relationships, to understand what a number presented to us by "structural engineers" means, to be able to formulate a problem with absolute precision and hand it over to someone who understands it accurately. And finally, the realization that mathematics represents reality and that we have a connection to that reality.
I guess I wouldn't want an architect who designs something and then relies on someone else to chew on it and he just settles for something going right or wrong.
Architecture / Engineers working in harmony!! The two are AMAZING!!!
Amazing video as always Dami 👏. Specially the last part, the architectural tradition in Southern Europe is more focused on the structural aspect of construction, especially in Spain. I wondered why Anglo countries there is a major division between architecture and structural engineering, do you think the main reason is tradition or insurance issues like you said 🤔? ❤
Yeah I think think it’s both tradition and liability. Speaking to some of my Spanish colleagues it also seems like architecture schools there focus more on construction thank here.
@@DamiLeeArch I think so too. There is a chance to make a video about the difference between architecture and structural engineering like the one you did about interior design, please 🙏 😀?
@@DamiLeeArch I heard in USA , you have a Architectural Engineering and in Italy You have Bulding engineer-Architect, the both have a deep skill in strcuture and construction bulding skill....In italy, it's possible for Bulding-engineer architect to join the Two orders ( Engineer and Architect ), what's your thinking about that ?
@@makral7887 Didn't know that. Sounds great
Thank you for sharing this
No probs 😊
The TIMING of this. Just failed my Calculus exam. If "Math shouldn't hinder you from going into arcitecture", why is it a requirement to choose the course! (I'm in Europe) Gonna have to re-evaluate my career options now
Calculus wasn't a requirement but physics was, for my uni entrance.
It depends on the school, but I’m pretty sure most, if not all, require physics. One of my schools only required math up to pre-calculus, but I found out one of my classmates “designed” a three-story building with the second story starting at 80’ feet high - in his THIRD year. 😑 I have plenty of other stories about that school and its students. I ended up transferring for multiple reasons from that school. The schools I looked into transferring required calculus or higher. Although, from real world experiences working at firms, Dami is pretty accurate in the way which math is used, I honestly think the schools that require a higher math class just use it to thin out the people from the programs and profession. There’s this mentality in our field that it requires us to push ourselves beyond our limit to be “worthy” of working in this field. Some of those who have only gone directly through an architecture path wholeheartedly believe this because of the amount of work we do, but that mentality is totally ignorant and egotistical. It is a lot of work, more work than most industries put into their field, and for less pay, but it’s very rare you’ll be put beyond your limits. Anyone can graduate and work in architecture, the school I transferred from proved that, not everyone can become a good architect, that school also proved that.
I think that one architect who's really popular in the philippines (the youtuber) Also said and showed in one of his videos he failed in one of his calculus exams though I forgot what happened after. He still became an architect though lol mybad just wanted to share. Though yeah probably depends on the school
Please try 1 video of real architect projwect from star to final output
Back in my day we had a stick, strings and plumb lines! And we had to share the stick.
I'd love a video regarding architects vs engineers
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@@DamiLeeArch oh, thank you. My eyes aren't working 😂 great video, very informative btw, I'm a new sub
It becomes easier when you understand mathematics as a language rather than arithmetic.
Thanks for the video
No probs
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ive heard a lot of people mentioning you need calculus to study architecture , is it true?
I'm very good at math. I'm in high school now after completing high school I wanna study about architecture
Thanks for this I am keen to start architecture but that was one of the main qs I had. Tysm ❤️
uh oh🤐
No probs 😊
me, a first year architecture student, studying for my statics exam next week 👁️💧👄💧👁️
Im an architecture student and I am in love/hate relationship with Math
No cap Revit spoils me like a new born baby
Which Khan Academy course should I take?
my dream as a kid was to become an architect, my family was poor and as a kid i thought "if i become an architect i can one day build my family a house" but unfortunately with very little resources, apathetic teachers, a lousy school system and horrible math abilities . . I quickly realized it would always remain just a dream. maybe in another lifetime
I think architects only use basic arithmetic math!! The structural engineers are the ones who needs physics level math.
Its the eye twitching for me hahahaha
that sleek picture of frank gehry flipping us off XD
From 🇮🇶 i love your work
We need math cus we have structure subject... Which is base on math only😁
Anyone know how much structural stuff is in a typical undergrad architecture degree. I'm first year engineering and am thinking of switching to architecture. I am currently really struggling with structural engineering stuff, and don't want to be presented with a whole bunch of bending moment, shier force, and truss load analysis questions if I switch to architecture.
What engineering are u study now
I have another question, why do some people say BIM does not work
I’m not sure what you mean
@@DamiLeeArchI heard someone say it on a webinar. I looked into it on TH-cam, but I only saw two videos. 🤷🏽I am still in school🤣😂
What about physics cause at my school I do ib and u have to pick 3 higher subjects and 3 standard like I will take math and physics standard and art higher but I’m not sure if when choosing universities they will see this as someone who isn’t strong at math and I might not get idk if physics is important I have 1 year to push myself so when picking I can do higher physics
Any threat to architect career with low development and ai? Also does the place you live matter ?
Math is definitely not my forte, so I'm fortunate that architecture requires very little in the way of math skills. With the advent of computers, even area calculations on complex shapes are a breeze.
Let Me Try again. Architects do not need math anymore because Revit, or other BIM software, does that for you. Since Gehry started using parametrics in his work in the 90's the machines have been able to produce architecture that COULD NEVER be done without them. Soon AI will replace the profession entirely. I could be wrong, but I saw this coming years ago. As the great thinker Ray Kurtzweil , who had an 85% accuracy in predictions of tech for the last 30 years, believes the AI singularity is due in 2045. I think that, though that is the year the computer will be self aware, the exponential growth that is happening is making us, Architects, expendable.
I really don't prefect in math by I desire design and love architecture
as a cost estimator.... i clash with architects sometimes XD
nice. I don't need to learn calculus
Better be good if you're helping manage the budget! Lol
I think you forgot to include the use of geometry which is in elementary math.
Ddinu study architecture
This topic: Architects 🤝 Engineers
Is it okay to do an mba after a b arch?
Yes
An architect that builds software definitely needs to be very good at math. Otherwise, hire a software engineer, give him/her a competitive salary, treat them nicely (an invite to coffee and dinner is very good bonus) and explain to them what you need. Or.... you can buy Autodesk product and forget building one yourself.
Fourth?
I’m applying for bachelors in arch next year though. I love your content 🤗
That’s awesome! Good luck 😉
not when building physics exists
One of my parents is an architect and I have a PhD in mathematics. No, architects essentially don't use any math.
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In India we have Math in our 1 semester and also u need to clear NATA or JEE to get admission into architecture clg .which again has a paper on maths...... .. I don't know why ..but even though we need to study..this... Me and my frds hated maths and structures
I think u need to be bad at math to be an architect...it's not a question it's a harsh fact~ 🤟🏻😅
A gentle reminder for all the introverts: architects do not NOT work alone. If that was the case then you'd need to understand structures, building services, landscaping, specialist design, acoustics, access, sustainability, planning, construction sequence, cost, construction methodologies and much more.
I cannot think of a worse profession to choose if you are an introvert honestly lol!
Math made me choose a different career path from architecture. Buaaaaaahhhh….!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢
So Many thumbnails for one vídeo.
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Your thumbnail lol
Oh noooo I’m an idiot 😭
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Dam I think I'm in love...? Nothing more sexy then a smart woman. Thanks for the Insight Damilee. Just a fan. lol
So no, you dont use math at all
but maybe she needs to be beautiful like you to be an architect?
so, the answer is NO! all of the math is done by computer programs!
except the FSR calculations and rough cost estimates (section 1 and 2 of the video), we typically do that manually.
@DamiLee hi ♥️😁
Me being a teen who like to be an architect but at maths 🥲i think it won't work out for me