Tim
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 05:14 PM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Architecture, interestingly is the one "art" where most people can't just up and say "I think I'll be an architect today" and find any clients or design and build any buildings on a whim.
To find work as an architect requires rigorous technical training and certification processes before one can hang one's shingle out.
For that reason, architecture falls into a very gray "art" area, in my opinion (and that may be why it is left out of the book) where it isn't pure art and where clients come to the "artist" rather than the "artist" creating for the sake of it in hopes of finding a buyer.
Even portrait artists aren't in the same category as architects in this regard. Anybody can call themselves "portrait artist" with no technical training while nobody can call themselves "architect" without technical training.
PBS runs shows on how to be many different types of artists (even down to a supposed "anybody can play piano" worthless piece of infomercial!) but the one field they don't have such a show on is "how to be an architect."
Maybe that's why all the architects I've ever known earn much more money than I do, with only one or two other artist-types earning anywhere near those salaries.
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