What is architecture? What does an architect do?

Every time I meet a new friend, there will always be such a dialogue scene. I said, "Hello, I'm Xiao Fang, and I'm an architect."

The other party asked, "Does the architect need to be at the construction site?"

I replied: yes, no.

He asked again, "Do you know how to decorate?"

I replied: I know a little, but we are not quite the same as interior decoration.

He asked, "So you only design the appearance of the house, but you care about the layout inside?"

I replied: we do both appearance and layout.

So the other party seems to understand the specific content of my career, but it doesn't seem to understand.

How to define an architect? I asked myself the same question, so I decided to write a popular science article, not a popular science article of my industry and architects.

First answer the first question, what is architecture?

When most people talk about architecture, their first reaction should be the house. Yes, architecture is a house, all kinds of houses. Our life, work, study, play, communication and so on will all be in one place, and architecture is the place to provide you with various functional needs.

The house that is closely related to everyone is the house that we are most familiar with. Many people know that architecture started from the real estate industry, and since you started buying a house, architecture has entered our life as a product.

Architecture is our residence, school, shopping mall, hospital, fitness gym, and so on. Our daily action trajectory shuttles through different buildings except outdoor.

Goethe once said: Architecture is solidified music.

Good architecture can bring people a sense of flow, rhythm and rhythm like music. The Sydney Opera House, which many people are familiar with, brings people a sense of beauty as smooth as a pianist's smooth piano music.

At any time, architecture is also a valuable asset in the world cultural heritage. Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, the Forbidden City in China, the Louvre in Paris, the Taj Mahal in India and so on. Over time, many beautiful buildings have survived and become treasures.

Architecture not only brings us visual enjoyment, but also the place he built is necessary for everyone's life. Three elements of architecture: firmness, practicality and beauty. Is the basic principle that all buildings should follow.

Everyone can't live without architecture, which is the container of our life. Eating, drinking and sleeping are inseparable from architecture.

After talking about what architecture is, let's talk about architects. What kind of group are architects?

Lu Ban is the general representative of China folk craftsmen (architects) who are familiar to China people.

Lu Ban was not only an inventor, but also the originator of ancient folk carpenters in China. Most buildings in ancient China are wooden structures. Architects in ancient China built exquisite buildings out of wood.

When it comes to civil craftsmen, many people may confuse architects with civil engineers. No, no, no, architects should say: architects are the soul of designing buildings, and civil engineers just help us realize this architectural soul.

An architect is a person who designs a house. He needs to draw sketches, floor plans, construction drawings, go to the construction site, read materials, communicate with examiners, communicate with Party A and communicate with government departments. ...

An architect is a person who transforms a house in his mind into a solid, and the drawings drawn by an architect are called blueprints.

Blueprint is the base map designed and drawn by architects, and finally delivered to the construction unit through the cooperation of multiple types of work.

Architects are a group with feelings. In the major scenic spots, seeing a building is more exciting than seeing a scene, that is, being an architect with great probability. Seeing the building you want is as exciting as seeing your first girlfriend.

When I went to Shangri-La for the first time, I stood under the high steps of Songzangan Temple and began to feel that the ancient architects were so clever. Just relying on this high step, people admired and feared the buildings above.

Architects are good at creating a sense of space, and we often say that different spaces bring different experiences and feelings to people.

Architects seem to have a personality of pursuing perfection, and they always want to deliver better results.

Architects design the appearance of the building, the layout of the building interior, the decoration of the building interior and so on. For example, our house, when we buy a house, the floor plan we see is the design result of the architect. As an architect, it is a lifelong pursuit to design a building that gives users a good sense of experience.

Architects are also a group overworked and abused by Party A .. Party A abused me thousands of times, and I treated Party A like my first love. This famous online saying describes the current situation of architects well. Overtime, abused by Party A, seems to be a curse that architects can't escape.

From the university, staying up late seems to be the standard for architects to grow up. Staying up late to make big designs, staying up late to make plans and produce construction drawings after graduation, it seems that architects have a particularly strong fighting capacity.

Architects are a group of people with architectural idealism, complaining about the twilight of the industry, but still fighting in the front line. ? The story of me and architecture

My little girl is also an architect, and she has been working for almost ten years. What does this profession mean to me?

In college, I chose architecture by mistake. Many students around me choose this major because they have artistic expertise or someone at home is in this line. I accidentally broke in.

It was very painful at first, because I didn't have artistic skills and couldn't appreciate the beauty of architecture. The first time I was moved by architecture was in Shanxi, when I saw Yingxian wooden pagoda. Under the afterglow of the sunset, the ancient wooden tower stood there quietly, bearing the luster of history, witnessing the surging wind and clouds, crossing thousands of years of history, and suddenly hit my heart.

At this moment, I suddenly fell in love with architecture.

Later, I practiced in Shenzhen with my classmates. Two people are sitting in the back of the bus. The classmate pointed to the tall building outside and said, "I will walk on the road in the future, and the roadside is the building I designed." When I am walking on the road, I can talk to it at any time. " Being hit in the heart again, I suddenly have a sense of mission to architecture.

Today, whenever a project is completed and accepted at the construction site, it is hard to describe the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when you see your own drawings become entities in your eyes.

I will also complain about the depression of the construction industry and the difficulty of Party A, but I have never left. I think this is because of my ideal love for architecture.

Architecture has abused me thousands of times, and I regard architecture as my first love.