The advantage of architecture-related majors is the spiritual enjoyment brought by the design process. Designers are one of the few majors that can cover all the upper needs of Maslow's needs theory, including respect needs, cognitive needs, aesthetic needs, self-realization needs and transcendence needs. But in fact, the current design environment and national income level determine that most students still have to fight for physiology, safety and belonging. Even in American universities, architecture is not a popular major for local people, because in developed countries, most middle-class families are reluctant to support their children to learn architecture, which is not directly proportional to their investment and return.
Previously, the popularity of architecture in China was mostly due to the rapid development of infrastructure and real estate market, which led to the explosive growth of market demand. Many designers have poor professional experience, but due to the high income level, the shortcomings of many industries have been covered up. Nowadays, the market is going downhill, the tide is receding, and the average hourly salary of architecture graduates is declining with the naked eye. Coupled with high housing prices and various social pressures, architecture has gradually become a minority major and returned to its original position.
From my personal point of view, it is best to ask myself a few questions before choosing architecture and its related majors. If you are not satisfied with any of them, please choose architecture carefully to ensure that you will not regret your major in the future:
1, do I have no foreseeable economic pressure in the short term, such as preparing to buy a house, get married, have children, and support my parents? 2. Can my family give me enough support to help me balance my work and life? 3. Is my mind stable enough to accept that my income is at a disadvantage in the circle and handle the relationship with Party A? 4. Do I have a certain persistence in beauty and art, and am willing to pay for it?
In short, as an insider, I hope that fewer people will study architecture, and I wish every student who seriously considers and chooses this major a satisfactory career.
Stakeholder, graduate of Dongda Architecture. This is good for schools and students. Different from other engineering majors, architecture undergraduate education focuses on design, and there is no requirement for students' mathematics and physics. In this way, the scores under the college entrance examination evaluation system are not related to the architectural design ability, and may even be negatively related. At that time, the students with the strongest ability to build hospitals were often students in first-tier cities. Junior and senior high school education was relatively easy, and they were interested and had time to cultivate relevant abilities.
For a school, a high score line, besides looking glamorous, does not mean that there are better students. It may only admit some blind candidates with high scores, and these people often do not develop well in the construction of hospitals. For students, the lower scores give those who really want to learn architecture and can learn architecture well, but the students with lower scores have better choices.
It really confirms that sentence: when the tide recedes, you can see who is not wearing underwear. Architecture, a major that actively engages in metaphysics, idolatry and concept games, has finally returned to its proper position in the face of employment reality. Of course, the ebb of national infrastructure and the decline of the real estate market are beyond our control or that of a school. However, in a series of architecture undergraduate colleges represented by Southeast Architecture Department, we can still find some unreasonable places:
1. The training plan changes all the year round, and it may still be a disciple and grandson of Penn University. Under the premise that the domestic infrastructure is in full swing and the market is huge, the research and learning of new technologies and standards are relatively passive, and there is no system of production, learning, research and use relying on the local market. So that the ability of graduates is gradually drifting away from the market demand.
2. The evaluation criteria are chaotic, or the evaluation criteria in schools are distorted. Usually, drawing and drawing amount are used as evaluation criteria, and the awareness of involution has been deeply rooted since school. Therefore, people often think that the design does not solve or perfect a certain problem, but is just the gorgeous carving of A 1.
3. Maintain the sense of superiority of the small circle. From the beginning of school, teachers will consciously or unconsciously cultivate students' sense of superiority and idolize architectural masters. In fact, it will cause newly graduated architects to be divorced from the masses and serve the capital badly, which can be said to be ungrateful. Conscious and unconscious superiority will bring some obstacles to architecture students' career change and give them a reason to comfort themselves in the face of oppression, which is also high-end.
The above remarks are only aimed at the undergraduate education of some architectural colleges. I don't have enough luck to take part in postgraduate study, so I don't speculate and comment on undergraduate and above. At the same time, I still think that the five-year architectural study experience in college is a very interesting experience, and I feel a sense of accomplishment every day. Facing the present situation of the industry after graduation, let me draw a conclusion: good major, but not a good career.
Candidates and parents are most sensitive to reality. They only look at the prospects of the industry and don't like being fooled. The dissatisfaction of the southeast architecture department this time is the best embodiment of the decline of the confidence of the whole society in the employment prospects of the construction industry.
If a major is full of bad reviews from top to bottom, then the industry is rotten to the root and can only be shuffled. Everyone casually searched, and the major design institutes, from Tongji East China Institute, to major central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises, to private enterprise design institutes, were almost all bad reviews! They all reflect long working hours, overtime, great pressure, heavy tasks and low wages. Is this a personal problem? This industry sucks! Excuse me, which industry with a little technical content will have so many bad reviews like a design institute, which is rare all over the world!
We all live in Hong Kong-style pigeon coops that are copied in batches and uniformly hardcover, and we don't need to design a big house for each family. Even under the auction system, the buyer paid the down payment without even seeing the house. As long as we can run the little red book well, it is a good house, and we still care about the artistic quality and quality of life. So how do we train so many architects?
It is suggested that the number of architectural majors should be reduced as soon as possible, and the enrollment quota should be transferred to manufacturing-related majors such as machinery, electrical materials and chemical industry. Let outstanding students not waste their talents, and strive to enter the factory to help China make. Doing a Wi-Fi switch in Huawei Xiaomi, playing the "smart home concept" and upgrading to create an "AI pigeon cage" are not much better than designing a big house.
Ten years ago, when capital was still pouring into real estate, everyone's wages were very high, so these contradictions were weakened. Now that the real estate is thunderous and the capital is evacuated, these contradictions are gradually emerging.
Coupled with the low wages in the industry, the boss is in arrears, which is serious and overtime is outrageous. Needless to say, architectural education is different from other science and engineering education. Basically, students are not needed for the foundation of mathematics, and it is almost impossible for many architecture students to change careers after they come out to rebuild a metaphysical standard education system. Further reducing the cost performance of the architecture. Now that information is developed, everyone's judgment is higher and they will not be fooled.