Seem to me that an architect is just an engineer with an art degree 🤔 surely there’s more.
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Hi, I am one of these engineers you speak of.
Architects are responsible for the design of the building, they focus on the aesthetics and conceptual aspects of the process. They have good but fairly basic training in engineering, materials, construction etc, and are ultimately responsible for the overall project typically.
Engineers (structural) are more specialised and are tasked with essentially making sure that the designs created by the architects are actually feasible. So I will go away and calculate the loads and carry out materials testing to see if the building will stand. If it does, we build, if it doesn’t, we figure something else out.
This is a very very simple version of both jobs. Architects are more generalists and more arty, engineers lean more on testing and science. Both interesting but just be a YouTuber, it pays better.
The engineer makes you an object that works disregarding the look
The architect/designer does the opposite.
When you hear about great architects, designers, engineers, it’s generally a person that managed to break this rule and make something that works great, looks better, and is even cheap to make. Otherwise you need to team up each specialist and let them fight in a room hoping to get something out of it.
The engineer makes you an object that works disregarding the look
The architect/designer does the opposite.
When you hear about great architects, designers, engineers, it’s generally a person that managed to break this rule and make something that works great, looks better, and is even cheap to make. Otherwise you need to team up each specialist and let them fight in a room hoping to get something out of it.
The engineer makes you an object that works disregarding the look
The architect/designer does the opposite.
When you hear about great architects, designers, engineers, it’s generally a person that managed to break this rule and make something that works great, looks better, and is even cheap to make. Otherwise you need to team up each specialist and let them fight in a room hoping to get something out of it.
Architects design the building, they are creating the main set of construction documents (blueprints). They are responsible for the entirety of the project, rather than a singular scope, such as a structural engineer, or electrical engineer, etc. The Architect puts together the floor plans and determines the dimensions and locations of things such as doors, windows, they are the ones considering all the building codes, ie. how many exits are needed for occupancy, what the occupancy is, how many restrooms, and toilets are needed. Architects also create the details on how the building is assembled. As well as pick out the materials of the building.
The engineers take those construction documents, (and in today’s time) they will also generally take a 3D model (most architects and engineers create in Revit), to complete the design in their specialty. A structural engineer will determine how the building will actually stand, where to put the rebar, beams, columns, etc. They make sure the building can stand up. An electrical engineer will make sure the building has enough power, they create the lighting plans, power plans (where the outlets are located), if has electrical elements to it they will make sure it works. There’s also the plumbing, which a lot of times tends to be mechanical engineers, plumbing takes care of all the pipes, making sure the building gets the water needed for every sink, toilet, sprinkler, etc.
To create a building, it takes countless amounts of people, and an architect and engineers are only a few of them.
Architects design the building, they are creating the main set of construction documents (blueprints). They are responsible for the entirety of the project, rather than a singular scope, such as a structural engineer, or electrical engineer, etc. The Architect puts together the floor plans and determines the dimensions and locations of things such as doors, windows, they are the ones considering all the building codes, ie. how many exits are needed for occupancy, what the occupancy is, how many restrooms, and toilets are needed. Architects also create the details on how the building is assembled. As well as pick out the materials of the building.
The engineers take those construction documents, (and in today’s time) they will also generally take a 3D model (most architects and engineers create in Revit), to complete the design in their specialty. A structural engineer will determine how the building will actually stand, where to put the rebar, beams, columns, etc. They make sure the building can stand up. An electrical engineer will make sure the building has enough power, they create the lighting plans, power plans (where the outlets are located), if has electrical elements to it they will make sure it works. There’s also the plumbing, which a lot of times tends to be mechanical engineers, plumbing takes care of all the pipes, making sure the building gets the water needed for every sink, toilet, sprinkler, etc.
To create a building, it takes countless amounts of people, and an architect and engineers are only a few of them.
Architects design the building, they are creating the main set of construction documents (blueprints). They are responsible for the entirety of the project, rather than a singular scope, such as a structural engineer, or electrical engineer, etc. The Architect puts together the floor plans and determines the dimensions and locations of things such as doors, windows, they are the ones considering all the building codes, ie. how many exits are needed for occupancy, what the occupancy is, how many restrooms, and toilets are needed. Architects also create the details on how the building is assembled. As well as pick out the materials of the building.
The engineers take those construction documents, (and in today’s time) they will also generally take a 3D model (most architects and engineers create in Revit), to complete the design in their specialty. A structural engineer will determine how the building will actually stand, where to put the rebar, beams, columns, etc. They make sure the building can stand up. An electrical engineer will make sure the building has enough power, they create the lighting plans, power plans (where the outlets are located), if has electrical elements to it they will make sure it works. There’s also the plumbing, which a lot of times tends to be mechanical engineers, plumbing takes care of all the pipes, making sure the building gets the water needed for every sink, toilet, sprinkler, etc.
To create a building, it takes countless amounts of people, and an architect and engineers are only a few of them.
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