Learn how architects utilize technology while building and remodeling schools, churches, and businesses
Job description of an architect.
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Transcript
My name is Edward Kodet.
I'm an architect.
I have my own office in Minneapolis, Kodet Architectural Group.
Our office really does in many ways a huge variety of projects.
We have most of our projects are schools, K12 schools, some higher education work.
The next category that we do a lotta work in are churches.
For instance, the church across the street, Central Lutheran, we're doing the addition there.
And then we do a fair amount of public work for cities.
We do libraries, maintenance buildings, and city halls, fire stations, parks, things like that.
Once they determine that they need to remodel or build new facilities, they'll issue what's called a request for proposal, what's known as an RFP.
And then once we're selected then we start meeting with staff, we meet with administration, and we meet with school district.
And then also we take a typically meet with the city that's involved.
We look at what the land is gonna involve.
We establish a program.
And a program is basically an outline of the spaces that the school needs to meet their needs.
Some cases it may be three or four programs if they wanna do an addition, they wanna do remodeling, or if they wanna do a new building all in part of what might be a bond issue if the school district is bonding for funds to build the schools.
Our profession is one where one needs a fair amount of experience.
And we have a process within the architectural profession of getting students aligned with all the basic parts of being an architect.
From doing illustrations to doing construction administration to doing contracts.
And they start on a process called AXP which is going through a number of hours that they need to spend before they can sit for architectural registration.
One case is doing illustration, it's the other case of doing red lines.
You know software called Revit.
Other cases it may be preparing boards for presentations, to help with marketing.
Surprisingly our profession involves a whole lot of community engagement.
And so they may go to a community meeting and put together questionnaires to discern what the public thinking is about the new school, the design and all aspects of it.
So there's a lotta energy that goes into what someone does in terms of starting day one all the way through their career actually.
But starting out from school they're gonna be very busy.
I'm an architect.
I have my own office in Minneapolis, Kodet Architectural Group.
Our office really does in many ways a huge variety of projects.
We have most of our projects are schools, K12 schools, some higher education work.
The next category that we do a lotta work in are churches.
For instance, the church across the street, Central Lutheran, we're doing the addition there.
And then we do a fair amount of public work for cities.
We do libraries, maintenance buildings, and city halls, fire stations, parks, things like that.
Once they determine that they need to remodel or build new facilities, they'll issue what's called a request for proposal, what's known as an RFP.
And then once we're selected then we start meeting with staff, we meet with administration, and we meet with school district.
And then also we take a typically meet with the city that's involved.
We look at what the land is gonna involve.
We establish a program.
And a program is basically an outline of the spaces that the school needs to meet their needs.
Some cases it may be three or four programs if they wanna do an addition, they wanna do remodeling, or if they wanna do a new building all in part of what might be a bond issue if the school district is bonding for funds to build the schools.
Our profession is one where one needs a fair amount of experience.
And we have a process within the architectural profession of getting students aligned with all the basic parts of being an architect.
From doing illustrations to doing construction administration to doing contracts.
And they start on a process called AXP which is going through a number of hours that they need to spend before they can sit for architectural registration.
One case is doing illustration, it's the other case of doing red lines.
You know software called Revit.
Other cases it may be preparing boards for presentations, to help with marketing.
Surprisingly our profession involves a whole lot of community engagement.
And so they may go to a community meeting and put together questionnaires to discern what the public thinking is about the new school, the design and all aspects of it.
So there's a lotta energy that goes into what someone does in terms of starting day one all the way through their career actually.
But starting out from school they're gonna be very busy.