The Indian Architect’s blog
When I first started writing on the blog, I was a taken back. It’s so difficult to write on certain topic. However, I am going through hundreds of mails daily, reading and writing a response. Then why is it so difficult for me to write on a certain topic. Then I realised the reason. It’s so difficult to find a topic. Actually, there are too many topics and you don’t know what or where to start with.
Started thinking – I am an Indian, a Delhite to be more précised, an architect by profession. And then it clicked me. Let me start writing on the Indian Architect – or myself. Let me start writing on my choices – Travelling, Movies and off course giving ‘Gyan’ on construction.
‘Architects know everything’ about construction.’ They can work on various scales, whether it is an interior of a small room or master planning of a 100-acre township. Whether it is drawing a layout or how to fix a tap on a sink, an architect needs to know everything. I remember my wife telling me one day, when I was fumbling with a light fixture and was calling an electrician, that why did I waste five fruitful years of my life in studying architecture, when I can’t even fix a light.
So the question arises, what exactly an architect learns in five years?
On the first day of my college a student asked our HOD, “Sir, why five years in architecture and only four years in engineering?” He looked at him and said, “On the first year you will unlearn whatever you have learnt so far and then you will start learning from the 2nd year.” With all due respect to all my freshly graduated architects, after passing out you will again need to learn architecture for at least 2 years in an office to understand what people expect from architects. When I sit for the interviews of the new architects, I don’t look at how much they have learnt but how much they are willing to learn for the next few years.
But here we are not talking about Architecture and the architectural studies. Atleast not in the first blog of mine. Here I will be writing about my experiences as ‘The Indian architect”; my hobbies i.e. watching movies, travelling with my kids and off course fiddling with my mobile for all the latest updates.
All articles that I will posting from now onwards will be solely my view points and my responsibilities. If in the process I hurt someone then please forgive me. But do keep reading it and please keep responding on the query section, so that I can also go through your view points.
