The Architecture Student Stereotype

If you see a person with red eyes and tired-worried face, carrying a long tube with dozens of big sheets of paper, running against time and looking like a zombie, you can be sure that is an architecture student. Why not a graduated architect? It’s because when they get graduated some gain a little bit of responsibility (at least most of them), and stop running around there and sleeping 4 hours a day (usually they don’t sleep), besides drinking all night long with their friends in parties.

Lover of coffee, cigarette and other junk-like stuff that would help to staying awake a whole night for doing some late work, usually a Project panel that will be censured by a psycho architecture teacher and after it burned and destroyed along with it’s scale model, the architecture student doesn’t have time (cause he spends all his time on parties, architectural conventions, which are also known as alcohol conventions, so that the remaining time is left for working on the Project).

Oh sure, The Project! Yes, with capital letters. It’s the most important thing in the world for the architecture student. It is the main subject in the architecture course and usually the others subjects, like the study of structures and history of architecture, are left behind. “It doesn’t matter anyway learn about how to calculate structures, because there is an engineer to do that”, they think.