{"id":4557,"date":"2016-11-11T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/architects-gone-rogue\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:02:47","slug":"architects-gone-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/tools\/architects-gone-rogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Architects Gone Rogue: How To Use Your Skills From Architecture School Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Bennett is a writer, designer and architect located Melbourne, Australia. She is the founder and author of archi-ninja.com<\/a>. Through her work, Linda explores the relationships between architecture, human habit, and anarchy. Here, she writes about the myriad ways in which architects can apply the skills learned in school.<\/em><\/p>\n

Practicing architects and students of architecture are notorious for changing direction or leaving the field to venture into other creative industries. But that doesn’t mean those hours in the studio were a waste. Indeed, whatever their reason for leaving the profession, these trained architects often find that the urge to improve their environment persists throughout their professional life. Here, we will take a look at some amazing people who have left architecture while maintaining a focus on the interaction between people and their environment.<\/p>\n

Before co-founding design firm ISSSStudio<\/a> in 2006, Igor Siddiqui studied architecture at Yale University. “Signing up to study architecture when you are 18 years old is such a gamble. I knew so little about it, but it seemed like a slightly saner version of art school,” says Siddiqui.\u00a0<\/i>“I am not sure that I ever found sanity in architecture school, but what I did very quickly discover was the rigor of thinking and making, the incessant questioning of givens, and endless potential for meaningful engagement and contribution. In a way, the architecture curriculum served as a gateway to so many other things like theory, philosophy, art.”<\/p>\n

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Igor Siddiqui and Solar Floral. Images via<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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ISSSStudio’s Bayou-luminescence installation “fuses material surface, structural volume and lighting effects into an immersive spatial experience.” Image <\/i>via <\/a><\/p>\n

Siddiqui recognized that he would be able to use these skills in ways he found more inspiring, but he says he will never be a non-architect, in practice or in philosophy. ISSSStudio continues to design small buildings in addition to art, digital media, installations, and products, all of which find their \u201cintellectual starting point\u201d in architecture. He describes his work as a means of exploring the themes associated with architecture in other forms, but he has not stepped away from architecture entirely; he teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, where he hopes to expand the creative thinking of today\u2019s architecture students.<\/p>\n

Pinterest, a website that allows users to \u201cpin\u201d links or photos to a virtual inspiration board, was co-founded by another Yale University architect-gone-rogue, Evan Sharp. He attributes his crossover capability to the critical thought that he established in architecture school, stating that it\u2019s \u201cmore about the way that architects look at the world than a specific skill set. Great architects, perhaps more than most designers, tend to look at the larger problems that need to be solved rather than the discreet design process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Evan Sharp on Pinterest. Image <\/i>via<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Perhaps it is this reason that architects tend to look broadly at the big picture, making it easy to step out of the proverbial \u201cbox\u201d (no doubt designed by an architect-gone-box-maker!).<\/p>\n

Kim Knollenberg, graduate of Philadelphia University and architect-gone-organic-farmer, describes her transition as a result of one particular project. Early in her career, she says, she was \u201clucky enough to literally live on a site three to four days a week for about four months during construction. I was up every morning with the guys with tools, working through today\u2019s major problems and putting out fires by the hour. I loved it.\u201d It was then that Knollenberg discovered she was meant to be outdoors and hands-on.<\/p>\n

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Kim Knollenberg. Image <\/i>via<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

The desire to create structures and shelters is related to the physicality of our bodies, yet today the practice of architecture is almost entirely separate from the physical process of building<\/a>. Knollenberg\u2019s experience on that project highlighted her desire to feel connected to others through the creation process. \u201cI wanted to be a vital part of a community on a \u2018hold it in your hand\u2019 level,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo I looked into what my other passions were and how I could fulfill my desire to connect, and stumbled into farming.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bruce Rowe Pottery and Dave Galbraith, founder of Yelp. Images <\/i>via<\/a> and <\/i>via<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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A lighting fixture from Bruce Rowe’s Anchor Ceramics<\/i><\/p>\n

Siddiqui, Sharp, and Knollenberg are just a few examples of some incredible architects working outside the industry; others include Bruce Rowe, architect-gone-ceramics-maker, and Dave Galbraith, the founder of Yelp and architect-gone-digital-business-strategist. If you are also considering \u201cgoing rogue\u201d (as I have many times!), consider your unique talents and interests in addition to what you\u2019ve gained from your study of architecture\u2014the distinct ability to think broadly, strategically, and creatively. Go forth, go rogue!<\/p>\n

Top image: Linda Bennett; via Archinect<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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