How to 'Be' an architect There are some important lessons to being starting your transition to being an architect. So class, lets get, to lesson one, in so you want to be an architect, first you have to learn to speak like an architect. It would seem that you could speak just like a normal person, but you are wrong. Architecture and design have their own language, here check it out for yourself. Now that you are speaking like an architect, you have to begin to dress the part as well. As we all know architects are fond of wearing black. But even more importantly you should have glasses, and if you are man consider balding.