What is the occupation of an architect?

Architects are one of the few professions that can work for a lifetime, and they are also one of the few professions that become more and more popular as they get older. However, the current situation is that young architects are easy to fall into job burnout and often change careers before their own beautiful days come. Architects are one of the few professions that can work for a lifetime, and also one of the few professional architects who become more and more popular with age. Job burnout highlights the extraordinary development of the real estate industry and makes the whole construction industry flourish. Entering the construction industry has become the pursuit of many young graduates, and its competition is as fierce as that of civil servants. However, while the construction industry is booming, it is also inevitable to dry up. In a survey of more than 1000 practitioners in the construction industry, more than half of them said that they had entered a period of career stagnation, and 48% thought that the job burnout of architects was the most serious. The survey shows that for the architects at the bottom, the sense of job burnout is mainly reflected in the questioning of self-worth and the ability to deal with customers; For middle and high-end architects, it is mainly reflected in the exhaustion of ability and the emotional problems of developing in a higher direction. From the macro environment, there are three main reasons: first, the low-price competition of design fees. This makes it impossible for architects to spend a lot of energy and a long time designing low-cost projects, so it is a common practice to apply engineering drawings; Second, the system has not been completely straightened out. Due to the limited establishment of large state-owned architectural design institutes, many young architects wander on the edge of the system, and some young architects quit to private design companies or firms. However, private firms have to squeeze architects for the sake of survival first, making them lack the potential for sustainable development. Third, the external environment is not optimistic. China is becoming a testing ground for foreign architects, even giving up the basic principles of design safety and economy. It is precisely because the general environment is not optimistic that young architects are in a state of quick success and instant benefit: they keep receiving projects, constantly producing drawings, desperately taking exams for certificates, and trying their best to keep their qualifications. They can't wait to learn it all at once and undertake the project independently within five years. This mentality makes young architects feel job burnout in succession. The timely cultivation of the three abilities is particularly important for changing the mentality and making good plans under the circumstances that the environment cannot be changed. To overcome job burnout, the key is to prioritize at different stages of your career and focus on developing the most useful abilities at the right time. It is particularly important to change the mentality and make a good plan: the first 35 years of macro-control ability training can be regarded as the learning stage. At this stage, many people are eager to learn new courses and strive to obtain various certificates. Of course, these tasks should be done, especially obtaining certificates, but they should not be the main direction of efforts. Architectural design is a complicated process of division of labor and cooperation. On the one hand, architects should be responsible for the design work, on the other hand, they should coordinate and solve many unforeseen contradictions and changes in time. For newcomers, drawing may not be difficult, but what is difficult is the work outside drawing: weighing the requirements of the owners and their own ideas; Generally speaking, in the long process from planning and design to construction, acceptance and use, architects contact users and builders externally and coordinate various types of work such as structure, water, heating and electricity internally. Many specific problems need to be judged and selected, and macro-decision will be transformed into micro-solutions, which depends entirely on the coordination and macro-control ability of architects. Therefore, it should be the key for newcomers to cultivate macro-control ability in practical projects. Real architects grow up in practice, and students of architecture department should go to work in the firm after their sophomore year to understand what the actual project is and how the firm operates. In practical work, we should communicate with people from different departments, try our best to solve the problems we are responsible for and accept the reality of the industry, instead of avoiding it for some reasons. For example, you know that this customer is very stingy, and you will design according to his expectations, but this design is not what you want, and it is boring to do, and the other party may not be satisfied. A better way is to design the works that you think are most satisfactory and convince customers on the premise of considering the requirements of customers. Moreover, the existing registration system also requires young architects to strengthen engineering practice in architectural design, improve their engineering ability, enhance their ability to deal with specific problems in practical projects, fully meet the technical and economic requirements of buildings, and comprehensively solve different contradictions. Climbing stage: 4 years to 10 years after cultivating the habit of continuous learning can be regarded as climbing stage. At this stage, most architects began to implement (preside over) various projects frequently, and their work became busier and busier, and they often felt hollowed out. At this stage, it is very important for the development of architects to cultivate a habit of continuous learning and continuously and effectively absorb and learn useful market information. There are many ways for architects to learn, and they can choose at different times: 1. Short-term study can supplement fresh ideas. Try to go to university or abroad for short-term study and research every once in a while to absorb fresh design and experience; 2. Participate in industry meetings or professional group gatherings. These gatherings are the intersection of information, knowledge, experience and work experience, which can not only broaden their horizons, but also get the support and friendship of their peers. 3. Change roles and participate in the project. Some architects have the opportunity to appear as clients and supervisors, and architects who do not have this opportunity should actively communicate with clients to understand the thinking and needs of different clients for architectural design; 4, classroom learning, enrich their knowledge structure. The scheme is not the whole of architectural design, such as the knowledge of emerging building technologies and materials, building regulations, understanding of domestic and foreign architectural works and the study and accumulation of new design methods, which architects should learn at different stages. Keep climbing: the key is to choose the right direction. For architects, the problem to be considered after 10 years is their own development direction. At present, in practical work, the work scope of architects has been divided into three directions: architectural planning (concept), architectural design (scheme design) and architectural implementation (construction drawing and service). Architectural planning mainly puts forward design concepts and project ideas; Architectural design is a further standardization of the above concepts and ideas.