Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work by uploading projects to Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Have you ever seen Coldplay’s interactive music video? It’s titled Ink, and it is an animated tale that allows the viewer to select their own pathway within the video story. Every decision sends the narrative in a new direction. I thought this could be the perfect contextual tool to copy in order to construct scenarios that explore life after architecture school. Specifically, how architecture careers feel like branching narratives and alternative timelines that are too often disregarded or forgotten. Two paths, one protagonist. The first stays close to the traditional architectural path, the other wanders somewhere entirely new… Chapter 01: Career Beginnings ADND SILO by Atelier Design N Domain, Mumbai, India Another late evening in the office. I am zooming aimlessly in and out in AutoCAD to try and catch even the tiniest of errors in the staircase detail drawing I have been working on for the past two months. Tomorrow is my six-month anniversary in my very first architecture job. Finally, a junior architect, ready to change the world, or at least my city. So far, however, the most exciting moment of my career was when I finally learned the difference between “revision” and “issue” on the title block. Truthfully, six months in and my architecture life has been mostly stairs, coffee, more stairs and the emotional rollercoaster of sending a PDF to the printer without checking the scale.…
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