What should prospective first-year architecture students prepare?

Overview:

The first is to read relevant books to accumulate theoretical literacy, which is very helpful for future study and broadening of horizons, such as basic book combination theory and collections of works by masters, etc. , as well as videos related to architectural history or architectural academic lectures are recommended.

The second is the practice of hand-drawing. Hand-drawing is a basic skill. You can sign up for short-term training in a sketching or hand-drawing class. Long-term training is not recommended, as the training effect is not good. After you learn it yourself, you can practice more, such as drawing and sketching, which will be very helpful for the postgraduate entrance examination in the future. This requires long-term accumulation, and only quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes.

Travel more and learn more. Go to other schools to see the level of architecture. There are huge differences between different schools. If you plan to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you can learn about these conditions in advance.

Only when the actual goals are clear can we learn architecture well.

To architecture students: As long as you don’t set the scary and stressful goal of becoming a design master as your ideal, then your goal will be much more realistic! Masters are formed through a lot of accumulation and chance, and there are too few places, haha! Architects serve the people, and the people need a large number of responsible and unknown designers, whether they are making plans or construction drawings!

For those who want to cross majors: If you have no foundation in learning design (such as painting, calligraphy, photography, etc.), if you only have a layman’s understanding of the design industry like ordinary people, if you are not naturally extremely talented. If you like the excitement of fierce and cruel competition, if you just want to be a construction drawing designer, then please don't waste your time re-learning the architecture profession.

Architecture, like other industries, requires a lot of hard training and a lot of accumulation of failures. It requires a lot of practice accumulation to form a theory. You even have to go through brutal competition and persist in not falling down. A few winners emerge!