The most important part of my life are my Drafting Tables and my Drafting Chairs. They are my life and my love. I have recently started my own architectural firm and although business hasn’t been as good because of the curb in construction, I still have a lot of fun. I draw anything from skyscrapers to bridges. My passion is definitely skyscrapers. Seeing a building that I designed is an amazing feeling. It is weird to see your work, something you’ve worked so hard at, shape society.
When I was a kid in Cincinnati there was an interesting mixture of some modern and some older styles of architecture. Ever since I was a kid I sketched floor plans and building designs on pieces of scrap paper. My drawings weren’t master pieces I admit but I was only in elementary school. However, it did show my love for buildings and drawing. I spent my day’s day dreaming of building different kinds of buildings. I had notebooks full of these drawings; I often got in trouble for not listening to the teacher. However, I didn’t care. I just wanted to keep drawing. My mom for a while was very worried about me, but she learned to accept the fact that school bored me.
High school was amazing; I could take the classes I wanted to. All of my electives were either art classes or computer generated design classes. I still kept a notebook full of my designs. Some of them were actually good. My art teacher Mr. Smith really encouraged me to pursue architecture. He was a huge inspiration to me. The architecture class I took was a lot of fun. We used this software called Chief Architecture Designer or CAD. This software allowed me to show my designs a lot better than my drawings. It was in high school I fell in love with the greatness of the skyscraper. Dubai especially interested me.
Dubai, an oasis of civilization in the Middle East, is home to the largest skyscraper in the world. Its skyline is absolutely amazing, it was my dream to work and design a skyscraper there. When I was in high school they finished the largest skyscraper and planned another world breaking skyscraper. It would stand over a kilometer into the sky. These feats of architecture and engineering amazed me.
After High school I went to school at the University of Cincinnati. The architecture program, DAAP, is one of the best in the country. I spent many long nights in the drafting room. The drafting tables there were amazing, they even had drafting chairs. The time I spent in there with my buddies from class was great. We were always helping one another with projects and floor plans. We drew just about everything. The summer after my junior year I got an amazing internship at an architectural firm in Chicago. At the end of the summer they offered me a full time job once I graduated. I had to take it, it was my dream job.
After a while though I decided to build my own firm, with only myself, my drafting table, my drafting chair, and my ideas I set off to make a multi-million dollar business. Hopefully one day I’ll be rich.
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