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INTO ARCHITECTURE

My reasons for choosing the path that I choose were very simple. Ever since my childhood I was always involved in art, I found amusement in drawing, and painting pictures of cars, homes, and cartoons. I always imagined myself to become an animator, or a painter, but I got really interested in construction in a very odd way. When I was 10, my parent’s house was demolished, and so my father was looking for a designer to plan out our new house. One day I overheard the conversation between my father and the designer, and I curiously went over the table to see what they were discussing, as I approached the table, there were many white sheets of blank paper with sketches on them, they were simply beautiful, I was so amazed with the sketches and drawing that I started coping them every time I had a piece of paper in front of me. When they were finished I asked my father who he was, and he replied architect. The definition of architect was simple and clear to me, that I decided to become an architect in a simple state of mind. I later came to understand that Architects ...

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