![]() If what you really want is LA, focus on that. You won't be able to easily change directions after doing LA for 3+ years without starting back at entry-level. So what I'm really saying is - yes, it's possible to do other things, but not without some specific plan how you're going to get the experience to do other work. Few clients want to have an LA or Interior Designer overseeing their building. But it would be a stretch - because clients usually want to know what specific project experience their design team has. If you are experienced running business at an LA firm, I suppose you would have the capability to do this for any design firm. Usually involves client management too - explaining the design work, negotiating contracts. Project management is a different thing - in design offices it usually refers to staff who oversee the scheduling and work planning for the design and CA labor. ![]() If you get an LA degree and spend several years working on LA design you probably won't have the knowledge a builder or architect is looking for in terms of construction management. Now you can certainly get that knowledge, but not without several years' experience working on site for an architect or construction company. ![]() You really won't have any specific knowledge of building systems or construction that applies to architecture - and that's what construction management depends on. And some general appreciation of space planning. It's a lot, and not something you pick up in your free time.Īs LArchinect was indirectly saying, the overlap between LA and architecture (or planning) is in the design tools you'll use. To do useful cost estimating requires a good understanding of the local market, construction techniques, site scheduling, and material or equipment suppliers. Good construction managers know everything about how building systems work, including MEP, envelopes, structural systems - and of course how those get built. Unless you can get work experience doing it, the skills you've got from school aren't going to be enough to go beyond entry-level intern-type work. Even for architects construction management takes some adjustment beyond what we learn in school. The work that you're describing sounds like construction management. But it sounds like you have unrealistic expectations about what any specific design degree prepares you to do. Well, take what I'm saying with some skepticism because my background is in architecture not LA. Maybe the problem is in how you communicate? "I barely trust the LAs on my projects with simple tasks (like reading drawings, seriously, worse than M&E levels) so stay in your father in law's good books so he keeps that job in his firm warm for you."-Thats a shame. Now, there is the odd park shelter, or kiosk you may well design and document, but even those it sometimes makes sense to pass along to the pros (especially since smart LA business people know that it serves us well to capitalize on every opportunity to float work to others). So, you might 'draw' buildings, maybe even do some space planning or massing, but you will likely never stamp anything, just as I believe Architects (and especially engineers) shouldn't be allowed to stamp landscape drawings. I also fully understand that buildings are much more than space planning boxes, as I would expect any good architect to understand landscape is much more than shrubs. I probably pay less attention to the LA profession than I do Architecture. BUT, I also spend a huge amount of time reading, learning about buildings, reading discussions here. ![]() Personally, I have drawn lots of buildings, even space planned interior spaces, arranged program, and circulation, but all of this work was on a conceptual, master planning level-helping a client select a site for XX program, massing studies for downtowns, neighborhood master planning. In my experience a good design education (and lots of self study) can prepare any motivated individual to be a competent space planner. ![]()
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