Advice needed about pursing passion

Try the Design Studies course in DIT .. It’s a two year evening course with every third Saturday inlcuding Tues and Thurs evenings. You study… Basic drawing/theory..Graphic design.. Engineering.. Transport Design… Product design.. Interior design… Architecture .. Landscape. It only touches on each subject but it’s fun and gets you thinking in design trems.
Only problem is that the next intake is in 2007

nearly in the same position myself, including college I have been in IT for 8 years and enough is enough!! Going to do the auctioneering course next September, start off in residential and then try and break my way into the commercial property game! I know auctioneers mightn’t be everybody’s favourite people in here but for me it’s a means to an end and allows me to get involved in something I am actually interested in.

Best of luck to you amstein…….I think we both need it!! 😉

don’t beat about the bush, if you are interested in architecture you are interested. the part time dit design course in bolton st. might be interesting, but knowing the tutors involved, i would wonder if it is goiing to be of that much help. if you want to develop/show your spatial awareness skills i dont think learning a computer programme ( especially a second rate one such as archicad ) is going to impress anybody in the know a whole lot. if you know enough computer programmes ( architectural ones ) it just makes you qualified to be some architects computer technology whore.
so if you really want to be an architect, start doing lots of freehand drawings now ( trust me they don’t even have to be that ‘good’ i know a number of good architects that are very skilled at drawing and a similar no. of good architects that aren’t so skilled) they just need to show that you can communicate your 3 dimensional ideas to others. if you want to learn a little bit more about architecture, start attending aai lectures and the like, i do believe their calender of events is on this website. pop into a bookshop or library ( bolton st. or richview would be the easiest)
and finally around christmas time, apply to some colleges , if you have high enough points ucd will let you in on them alone, if you dont ( like moi ) the aptitude test and interview for bolton st. will come in exceptionally handy. apply to uk colleges if you can. going to college as a mature student cant be easy financially, but i can think of several currently studying in my college so it is far from impossible buddy.

et voila,

in september 2006 you could officially be on your way to being a bona fide architect. there is no point in time wasting.

best of luck.

ignore this one, thanks,

I came across this thread when searching google for evening courses in Architecture and would like to make a contrubution (if it’s not too late!) and hope that I could get some advice on how I could become an architect.

My background is also in IT, having worked for a number of years in the area. I felt completely unhappy in what I was working in and decided to take a break and do a full-time 1 year course in multimedia, which I’ve just finished. I did consider Architecture before doing this course but was uneasy about how i’d fund five years of college (I’m 29 and already did four years of college in UCD (don’t ask!)). I have good spatial skills, I’m creative and oddly enough I’m very interested in the architecture of transport infrastructure, but didn’t do Art in school.

Unfortunately, now that I’ve finished this multimedia course, it looks like I’ll have to get a job in what I was doing before I did the course (oh dear!). I’ve pangs to do architecture again.

So, I was looking into evening courses in architecture. Could someone confirm that the following is correct?
* the part-time Design Studies course in DIT doesn’t lead to the possibility of becoming an architecture? From what I can tell, it doesn’t.
* To get to do architecture, you must do it full-time:
– you could do this in three years abroad – apparently there is a course in Dalhousie university in Nova Scotia Canada which can be a three year course for mature students?
– To do it in Ireland it will take 5 years, but there’s no guarantee you will get entry?
– Is there another way?

I know my story sounds a bit confusing but much appreciated for any feedback.
Jack1. 🙁

“Re: Advice needed about pursing passion”

have you tried the handbag department at Brown Thomas?

@jack1 wrote:

– you could do this in three years abroad – apparently there is a course in Dalhousie university in Nova Scotia Canada which can be a three year course for mature students?

A lot of the Canadian unis are switching from a five year bachelor to a three year masters programme.

hy there,
im looking for a archicad course in dublin, is anyone know where i can fin it?
thank you !
lucy

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by manstein

? That went over my head mate ?

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Originally Posted by burge_eye
“Re: Advice needed about pursing passion”

have you tried the handbag department at Brown Thomas?

it was a gag about your mis-spelling of ‘pursueing’ – ‘purse-ing’ geddit?

poor, poor joke… :rolleyes:

is there anyone who knows if there are archicad course or grinds.
thank u for it.
hope to get a positive answe c.
l

St. John’s Central College in Cork do a CAD course, i know that much. don’t know about dublin i’m afraid, but i’d start at the non-university teritary education centres for 1 or 2 year specialised skills programmes. do FAS have a CAD option? i wouldn’t be suprised if they did.

@Yossarian wrote:

:rolleyes:

it was a gag about your mis-spelling of ‘pursueing’ – ‘purse-ing’ geddit?

poor, poor joke… :rolleyes:

Especially since in your explanation of it you also misspelled ‘pursuing’.