If you are a high school student dreaming about becoming an architect, you may imagine that preparing for architecture school means learning how to draw buildings, understanding floor plans, mastering architectural software or studying famous architects. These things can eventually become useful, but I believe there is something much more important you should develop before university. You should begin discovering how you see the world differently from everybody else. Archite

Architecture is one of the few creative disciplines in which something deeply personal is repeatedly placed in front of other people and openly discussed. You spend weeks developing an architectural concept, drawing, researching, making models, testing possibilities and slowly constructing a world that did not exist before. Then you pin it to a wall, open your portfolio, enter a jury or sit opposite a client, and suddenly other people begin telling you what they think. Some c

Architecture school teaches students how to draw, design, make models, develop concepts and present projects, but there is another education happening at the same time, one that can influence a young architect far more deeply than learning how to design a building. It is the experience of being judged. You stand in front of professors, tutors or a jury with something you have created, and suddenly sentences begin arriving from every direction. Your project is too complicated.