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Architect
* Most architects begin their careers working for an architectural firm
  - create what the client wants because architecture client-driven profession
* Most architects work in firms, the majority of which employ fewer than five architects
  - on their own, or as members of small architectural firms
* Some architects spend their entire careers searching for their own styles.
  * Usually building cost is what limits the life of a building, but fire, war, need or fashion can also affect things. As towns and cities grow, it often becomes necessary to make roads wider, or perhaps to build a new train station. Architects are employed again and so the city changes. Even very important buildings may get knocked down to make way for change.
* are artists who design buildings
  - concerned with the design of buildings and supervision of building projects
  - creators
  - designers
  - egocentrics designing monuments to themselves
  - experience designers
  - no longer the only ones who have all knowledge about the built environment
  - office jobs
  - people trained to design buildings
  - professionals with specialized knowledge about built and natural environments
  - professionals, like doctors, dentists, lawyers and engineers
  - professions
* deal with the relationship of people to their environment.
* design and build structures such as power efficient homes and office buildings
  - create the built and aesthetic environments where people work and live
* generally focus on aesthetics and functionality.
* have egos and they want to show what they are capable of doing
  - the power to arrange objects in space so time passes slower or faster
* is used to create and modify document models.
* often design with the idea of keeping certain walls to save money
  - take plants into consideration when designing finer homes
* plan buildings by making many kinds of drawings of their buildings.
* read theoretical books to determine how to make buildings and how to think esthetically.
* sometimes make nets to build cardboard models of buildings they design
  - specialize in one type of building or in one phase of work
* spend a good deal of their time sitting at computers and drawing boards.
* tend to think in terms of concrete realities.
* vary widely in the way they draw doors.
+ Building: Civil engineering
  * Buildings can be beautiful or ugly, exciting or boring. Architects are people trained to design buildings. There have been many good architects and also many bad ones, just as there have been good builders and bad. Architecture can be an art form. Look at the building where you are reading this. Look at the shapes and shadows. Think about how you could have made the building better.

### person | creator | architect:

Landscape architect
* Many landscape architects work for small firms or are self-employed.
* Most landscape architects have a degree from an accredited college or university.
* are architects
  - the mediators between culture and nature
  - usually strong on design concept theory
* can play a crucial role in conflict resolution
  - use all types of metal railings to accent any landscape
* do more than simply plant shrubs, arrange trees, and run watering systems.
* help save historic sites.
* hold graduate or undergraduate degrees
  - undergraduate or graduate degrees
* is an architect
* means a person licensed by the state as a landscape architect.
* spend most of their time indoors in offices.
* tend to work for landscape architectural firms.
* use computers primarily to visualize patterns in space
  - trees to screen unsightly views and to absorb and block noise
* work with other architects and engineers.

Landscaper
* bring in boulders, build ponds, and plant trees and other vegetation.
* specialize in outdoor work.
* use mustard trees for shading because of the low branches and low-growing height.