e most unique, would be having a creative mind and a good imagination. To be able to search in your mind, and be able to draw out the most incredible and magnificent kind of structures known to man is the most powerful skill for an architect.
Some of the things that can be stressful are an architect's daily tasks. They go through a normal routine like everyone else, but every once in a while it gets harder to stay in that routine. Working as an architect may get stressful at times considering everything that they might have to do. On an average, an architect works 10 hours a day. They keep themselves pretty busy during those hours mostly staying in their offices, whether it be working on a design that may be due the following day, developing a new report or drawing a sketch for their next assignment. Architects might also have additional duties such as having an interview with some of their clients such as other architects, interior designers, lighting designers, acoustical designers, and engineers. Many of them "often visit construction sites to review the progress of their project"(4 – Career in Architecture) so that they can make sure everything is going to plan. Site visits are usually the times that they do step out of their offices to check up on their projects.
With all these skills and their daily tasks, architects do have a lot of challenges while working. First of all they do work 40 hours a week as others but "more than half of all full-time architects work more than 40 hours a week."(1 - U.S. Department of Labor Bureau) The architect that occasionally work more than 40 hours are usually working under stress on the weekends and nights so that they can meet deadlines of a project that is due. There are even challenges de
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