Blog 7 - Second Interview Preparation

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

My mentor is Mr. Chung and he works at CMC Architects and Engineers. Their work place does reflect their expertise. His office and building space is filled with rolls, folders, and cabinets of blueprints and architectural plans. 

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

Where did you get your architect licenses at? What college(s) did you attend to learn more about architecture? How popular would you say your company is, how well known are you? Is CMC Architect and Engineers are large company or is it a private, locally owned type of business? Did you have a mentor yourself or did you just learn on the way? What other types of activities have you done that relates to your career field? Have you done any other type of profession other than architecture? 

Blog 6 - Advisory Prep

1. What has worked well for you concerning senior project this year?  What has made it a positive experience for you?  

To be honest, it is still too early to decide what is working well for me or not. I haven't done much for my senior project yet so whether something is working or not, I would not know. There has been no positive experience for me nor has there been a negative experience. I guess you can say I am at a neutral state regarding my senior project. 

2. What are you finding difficult concerning senior project?  How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you?  How might the senior team help?

What I am finding most difficult concerning my senior project is that I don't know what to focus on about my topic. Yes, I have ideas on what to do, but I am unsure if I want to actually do some of those ideas. It is not a matter if it is hard or not, it is if it is interesting for me to actually want to do it. I have no idea how to adapt to make that portion work better for me. Maybe I can just suck it up and just pick something, but then again that would suck for me. How the senior team can help is maybe, I don't know, do my senior project for me? That would be fantastic! Just kidding! They could just give me more time for me to decide how I want to further pursue my dilemma, that would be wonderful. 

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

Link to Interview: https://soundcloud.com/lillego16/1st-interview

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?
The most important thing I learned from my interview was how important the design of a building is. This interview actually helped me know what I want to focus on in my senior project. What I would do differently for interviews is to formulate questions to help focus on my senior project. 

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

Yes, I got additional resources and contacts. The one that would be the most useful to me are the resources. Resources would be more useful to me because they would be more reliable to get to rather than relying on a contact that may or may not want to talk to me or even have time to talk to me. Resources are more accessible so getting information would be a lot easier. 

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

What makes my interviewee qualified to help me is that my interviewee is a licensed architect. This person has been in the architect field for over 30 years. They are also an employee under my mentor and work for the same company. 

Interview 1

Blog 4 - House Advisory Prep 1

What I hope to accomplish through senior project topic is gaining experience of being an architect. Architecture is not as easy as it seems, drawing building and designing structures because they look cool. There are a lot of factors that need to be accounted for and through senior project, I hope to gain as much knowledge about the field as possible. What I also look forward to is be using the AutoCAD system. It is a software that aides the user in making designs and would be awesome to work with.

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

Who I plan to interview is my mentor, Mr. Chung, because he is a professional in the field. He has done both sides of architecture, the production side as well as the business side. He has a lot of experience and knowledge about the field and will provide helpful information. One person whom I would like to interview is my summer professor. He is also an architect and has been in the field for a long time. He is very knowledgeable about the field and is still working as an architect.  

2. Five question will be assigned to senior to ask. What additional questions do you plan to ask? Ask open-ended questions. What are open-ended question? 

Do you think architecture is going to continue to develop and evolve for the needs of society or will it reach a point where it will not advance? What is the best aspect of architecture? Is architecture a field of work worth going into? Do you regret any decisions of becoming an architect?