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I have considered majoring in architecture, so for my job shadow, I wanted to job shadow an architect. Not knowing any architects off the top of my head, I asked Mrs. Starr if she knew of anyone because Mrs. Starr seems to know everyone. She connected me to a man named John Graham who said he would love to have me job shadow. Frankie Wright had also wanted to job shadow an architect, so we decided to do our job shadow together. The date we set for our job shadow was February 27, and we were going to job shadow Mr. Graham himself, along with the other architects or staff at GH2 Architects, which is located in downtown Tulsa. When we arrived downtown at GH2, it was beautiful. At around 8, we checked in with the recipionsit, and she let Mr. …show more content…

After that, we went into the work area of the office, which was divided into four main sections. The front section was accounting and financial area, which did have doors separating it, but the rest of the sections were open, and it was essentially just a big room. The three other sections were labeled above reading: design, service, and solutions (which is also their business slogan). Mr. Graham explained the layout to us, and how there were many architects who worked in each step of the process. He introduced us to another younger man named Nathan (I think) who would be taking us to different people around the office to watch throughout the day. Obviously, they all had their own work to do, so Frankie and I were split up. I began by observing a Senior architect at the firm, who was a tall older gentleman. He showed me a program called SketchUp that could be used with his assortment of pens to create paper renderings of building designs . Along with that, he showed me some of his resume and the projects he was currently working on. After an hour, I was shown back to the Design sector, where Frankie and I both listened and watched a younger man working on the Tulsa Tech building design. I had always assumed architecture was art and hand drawings like I had just seen, but he informed me that the majority of architecture, or jobs in general, is communication and problem-solving. He was

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