What an Architect REALLY Does During the Day
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This video follows Hiba Bhatty, an architect at Valerio Dewalt Train in Chicago, through a day on the job. The daily activities of an architect can sometimes seem mysterious. This is likely due to the fact that no day is really “typical.” Designing buildings goes through multiple phases, each with very different responsibilities. Today, Hiba is working on submittals from the contractor, specifically the door schedule. She has to check to make sure the contractor is accounting for every single door within a 500 room student housing project. This task can be pretty tedious, so Hiba also takes us to a recently completed project and walks us through what a day was like for the various phases of that project as well. If you’re interested in becoming an architect, or looking to join the workforce, or just interested to see how architecture firms work, this video offers access into their daily inner workings.
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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Hiba Bhatty
01:31 Submittals
01:50 Revit
02:38 Smash Offer
03:50 Door Schedules
06:43 Convene
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It was a pleasure catching up with Hiba and you all enjoy seeing what she's working on. She was very generous in allowing me to distract her for a day. Thanks Hiba! Also, thanks to Smash for sponsoring this video. Get 54% discount on Smash ($4.60/month) and transfer your files with no size limit: bit.ly/StewartxSmash
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Me, an architect: let's see what a day as an architect is like!
what's it like
How's your day as an architect been?
from the fact that you're not replying, I'm guessing you overworked and died
hhh me too
Was it accurate?
Can you do more versions of this format? Interior designers, urbanists, ect... There is such a huge range of possibilities that we can do as architects
Yes. Delving into a day of an urban planner would be an interesting watch. I still own a copy that Tulane University produced around 1962 of the 8 or so proposals of Interstate 10 carving itself through historical neighborhoods in New Orleans.
These kinds of ephemera are just fascinating stuff.
Thay would be really good.
I agree. Also a day in the life of a landscape architect would be interesting. Thanks for all the great content.
The attention to detail that this work requires is pretty overwhelming from my point of view. The video gives me renewed respect for the work that architects do. Thanks for this glimpse of how architects work.
where u from?
I've stared at my blank piece of land for a year before I planned out sewage, and researched waste management techniques, earthen building techniques and building codes, and what I can do with my property, and thankfully I can do a lot. HVAC and electric I have already solved and tested it as the electrical system is plug and play, as well as grey water and blackwater systems and the treatment for both I have the general design idea in my head, internet out there already works and I have rain catchment and cistern in the works, with a goal of 10k gallons, and the sewage treatment will also have a biogas attachment which during the winter months the Gas will be used to heat water to circulate through so the bacteria 🦠 can continue to produce biogas and break down organic matter, and I can use it for cooking and warmth in the winter, in the summer I'll use geothermal cooling, and solar chimneys and a swamp cooler, since the area is so dry, is all this legal? Yes, can it be overwhelming? Yes is it impossible no, and I'm not an architect either, but understanding engineering and a bit of civil engineering helps when planning homesteads
Been a registered architect for about 5 years now - it really isn’t too complicated - it’s learning and relearning programs - the contractor is responsible for the means and methods of construction. So it isn’t as detailed as one may think.
As an Architect who's been in the profession over 4 decades, this was such a refreshing look at the mundane and satisfaction that we experience on a daily basis. door schedule submittals usually scare away some interns from the profession, but walking through a space you have completed makes it worthwhile. Thank you.
This is very interesting. It confirms what my relative told me - that a lot of "architecture" is very tedious - and why they wanted to be independent after working for a large firm for years.
@@mikek9297 that headscarf is for religious purposes not solely fashion, lol. You should know that mikey
@@mikek9297 That headscarf remark really elevated your comment from "okay, maybe a bit sure of themselves" to "just shut up"
@@Friek555 Of course you are fixating upon the most superficial part of the comment...
@@mikek9297 you think that's bad, just five years ago as a contractor we would have to print and courier three bound hard copies of our submittals. It was like pulling teeth trying to get architects and consultants to accept an electronic copy. Now they won't take hard copies lol
@@thebigmacd I guess i'ts what passes for progress these days. But that's good - the ammount of water used for paper production alone is reason enough to get rid of hard copies. Not ot mention storage space, cost of printing folding and binding multiple copies of heavy book volumes filled with redundant information noone will ever use in most cases... we have more efficient data storage solutions, it's time we moved past print like we did with clay tablets.
And I still maintain the door schedule can be condensed to a single spreadsheet with only the basic info provided - the company this girl is workng for is wasting her time on this bullshit
A typical day for an Architect is very much as Hiba first showed, door and toilet schedules, shop drawing submitting and review, stair details, meetings, research, drawing, etc. Going to see a finished project is only a rare event, with just a few such happening in any one year. That may be the most distinct thing about actually being and doing the profession. Our work is measured in months and years. Projects we start in early concept and brainstorming may not finish till a year or more later (sometimes many years, especially if phased).
I wish this type of content was around when I was starting deciding on a major or early into my architecture education. Insight like this into the day to day is so grounding and refreshing to see.
It’s so radically different from my early days over 35 years ago. I actually worked with Joe Valerio back in the day when I was right out of grad school.
Whoa! Cool!
2:17 I would love to have a set of documents like that. It would make a helluva coffee table book.
Part of what I love about this profession is exactly what's described in the intro - for the most part, no two days as an architect are the same. Yes it can be stressful with long hours and contentious relationships with clients and contractors but when you see your vision come to life and experience a project you've designed, there's no feeling quite like it.
I am a new subscriber who was most likely algorithmically connected to your channel as a result of my recent fascination with historical restorations in Great Britain. Your videos echo everything I have believed and tried to disseminate in my 40+ year career in design. For almost 40 years I wrote a syndicated newspaper column (like a blog, but printed on paper and painstakingly delivered to your doorstep every day .. for anyone who doesn't know). I know I could have been louder had CZcams existed, but so glad to see smart and opinionated people like you take the reigns. I am currently obsessed and on Day 2 of 24/7 binge-watching (I am semi-retired ... the bathroom wallpaper can wait, and luckily, there are no plans for Xmas). Thank you for doing this. I am looking forward to your future presentations.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
This is an awesome view into the process! Thanks, Stewart and Hiba!
Great video, loving the content! I think a super helpful video covering CA submittals would be great, it's definitely one of the harder tasks to gain experience as a younger designer out of school! How architects decide to reject, state to make corrections, state no exceptions taken, and state reviewed for conformance only. Cheers!
Really appreciate this type of practical content!
Thanks for the video! It's great seeing the snippets
the quality of this dude's videos is crazy for the amount of subs he has
video made me smile.. im excited for the future!
I've been binge watching a lot of your videos and this is definitely my favorite one. That wall is fascinating
I like how she has her hands in everything, I really appreciate that
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
the most informative video i've seen in a while! Love this.
Thank you, very insightful video
This was very informative. I would love to see more of this type of videos!
Impressive. The scope of these vids definitely gets my thumbs up.
Just found your channel a few hours ago from the house in Missouri video, and realized you were at 99.9k! Just leaving this comment now to say congrats on 100k! Awesome channel, I'm not even into architectural design and I find this interesting, enjoy the CZcams silver play button
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Ehm sorry for being overly excited but this was extremely insightful and as a young architect kicking off my career I'm very keen on that specific type of videos, so keep them coming. 👍
This was super ! We need more of those, on different tasks 👍👍
Another great content! Thanks for introducing Smash! Architecture works are tedious with huge liabilities; and yet architects all over the world are underpaid. 😓
Ive switched over to this career path about a year ago. Good to know its more or less the same just seems to scale up the longer your in it.
Great video!
6:34 -- "no exceptions taken" = ingenious literary device.
I appreciate your insightful videos and am looking forward to seeing more.
I’m quite confused with why it’s so ingenious. Please elaborate
@@artem7804 One might think that if an architect "takes no exceptions" to a submittal, the architect has actually approved the contractor's proposed submittal for use in the project. But there is no express approval in the phrase "no exceptions taken."
Further, under at least some industry-standard contract documents, the architect's review of submittals is very limited, and does not relieve the contractor of the ultimate responsibility to construct the project according to the formal contract documents. (The formal contract documents don't include submittals). So, if a problem develops, it first falls on the contractor even if the architect stamped a submittal "no exceptions taken."
So, part of the ingeniousness of "no exceptions taken" is that it allows an architect to review a submittal for general compliance with the project's design intent without undertaking the risk of "approving" materials, means, or methods selected by the contractor.
Finally! A handy video to send to my friends when I have to explain what exactly a submittal is.
This is my last semester(thesis) in masters of architecture and this is nice snip of what to expect. Thank you for the nice video. I can’t wait to start my journey as an architect! (Well I’ll start working as a designer lol but I want to obtain my license too!)
She really influences me. Thanx for it
I’m a first year Architecture student at the University of Houston( Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture), and I’m excited of doing this in the future.
This was two years ago, how are things now ? Still excited?
@@tshegofatsongakaemang379 im now a 4th year architecture student and still excited! Im almost done!!!🎉🎉
As a UK Architect it’s interesting to see that one would be checking door schedules and the like. I tend to delegate this to a senior technician unless there a specific reason not to. However I have to agree that my reason for joining the profession was to create ‘stuff’ and seeing something that I’ve designed become a reality is fantastic. 👍
Landscape architect here. A+ video man.
It’s great for people to see the not so cool part of the job like this 😊 I swear some people think I get to just build cool models all day haha.
Can you tell me a little about what you do during a normal day/week and the best, as well as the worst parts? I'm thinking about going into landscape architecture once finished with highschool.
I think I quite like the tedious part! I plan to take architectural engineering this year, and I can’t wait to see if it’s really my thing 😅
A nice video of the job itself, especially for a person interesed in this field. I hope you can do more videos like this in the near future :))
It’s crazy how much detail goes into everything and how little we think about those details when looking at the completed work. Also a video just came out on the b1m channel about the Billionaires row in NY and how liquidity is increasingly affecting architecture that I’d be interested in hearing your take on.
Amazing video ! Loved all the details given by Hiba about the real process if being an architect ! Would love this to become a series, either diving in the technical details of a single project, or getting a more general overview with several architects
Great video.
Very interesting, I wish I would have known more about architecture and urban design/planning, before I went back to school 😭
Been binging on your videos for the last couple of weeks. Very informative. But I can't express enough thanks for using a hijabi architect on your video. Here in Edmonton Alberta, we saw reports of attacks on hijabi women, mostly black hijabi women, on our streets. And that was progress because earlier these attacks were not even reported by media. It took community effort to get the attacks reported on tv.
You've great content thanks
At my practice of three(!) I also do all the running around, site visits that are almost daily, client meetings, procurement, taxes and general business running which devours 3/4 of each workday. At the office I do design work and some drawing and specification and I am grateful for my employees that do the actual hardcore work.
I find this yo be true for most small businesses let alone architectural practices...
Thanks for the Video! by the way it would be interesting if you can do a video on how architects get paid by clients, like a video on the financial side of architecture in general, how do architects stay on budget and all that... best of luck!
Wow...she is so cool. Great job Stew
As a just-graduated Civil Engineer, when I talk to older Engineers & Architects, they tell me that the pace of projects and their deadlines have exploded since 20 years ago. We now do as many projects in a few months that would usually take the year.
Quantity makes everything a lot cheaper... what can go wrong?
Interesting perspective! I run a small firm in India. It's crazy how different a big firm works and how larger projects are realised. It feels super daunting from an owner's perspective. Thank you for sharing!
Whooo! Got that brand deal! Congrats.
would love to see more videos like this
Yes! Thank you Stewart. I’ve been having a real time trying to figure out if I (as a young 21 year old) really want to go into architecture. I’ve always had a deep deep passion for design, and art, and architecture specifically. My father is an artisan carpenter and works on so many beautiful structures, sometimes he would even take me to see them as they were constructed as a young boy. But do I want to be an architect? Is there other ways I could be creatively involved with design and specifically space besides a masters of Arch. Or even a bachelors? School seems so intimidating sometimes and my deep passion for music that I have been really pouring my heart (and money) into would be hard to give up! Thank you for reading and sharing the beautiful world of architecture through your content!!
Drafting and Design, thats what I did, work in civil engineering field now and do 90% of the design of land development projects now and moved to project management within 5 years working.
@@SiIveraaron Damn! That’s a really interesting perspective I had no idea about. Do you feel like you can flex your creative muscle often enough? What entails being able to manage as well now?
Im in the exact situation like you except Im 20 year old. We have a lot of ingeniors in our familiy, and I have never been interested in maths or such things, and I am now majoring in advicing and grownups learning (its directly translated from my language so I know it sounds kinda weird) But this past year I have been really thinking about whether this is right for me even though I enjoy the psychology stuff, therefore I have been thinking about switching to architecture... I really love art and structures and buildings have always fascinated me, but even though math is my weakest subject, its always something I can work on.
@meow wef i would love to know what you did. I am also 20 and studied computer science for 2 years already and now i am reconsidering my choice. I don't like I don't like coding and since I was little I was passionated about architecture and interior design and I'm considering to switch majors
I like her please make more of this kinda videos🧡
It would be awsome if you could make more video showing the day of an architect from different offices.
Wow! that very interresting to see that working in architecture office is quite the same around the world.
The content is priceless 👋
This was phenomenal in ways you’ll never know
uiuc shoutout!! I had friends while I was there who were doing architecture. it’s a great school. and hiba seems really cool!
Really cool content, much more architects , building engineering, project managers or construction engineer 👍
I'm in community college now and cant wait to start architecture at university.
Very interesting video to watch, especially loved seeing a fellow hijabi doing well in an amazing field!
All different types of depressing boxes. Amazingly brilliant.
As a building occupant, I am glad you guys go to the trouble of checking every door to be sure it opens correctly.
Also, just wondering if any of you guys have considered rotating your screens to vertical when you have a big door document to go through. You could use much more of the available screen space and make it easier on your eyes.
I am studying to become an architect and it would be easy but we have to usually go into the rendering and designing softwares and they don't really like to be in vertical orientation
I do the quantity surveying part. Everybody is scared sh*tless of that. And when I do building inspection and have my monthly payment discussions with the contractor, I become the most hated person in the construction site, because I know a lot about it and point out tidbits of information nobody cares or knows about. I gain a lot of XP and in about 6 or 7 months into the project I become so imersed in it that nobody dares to fire me. It's a lot of fun.
This is pretty interesting, a lot of this stuff I don't really see because I do telecom architecture
door days! fascinating
When the owner of the studio brings an extra box of Dunkin donuts, be aware.
I clicked so fast. I used to do improv with Hiba!
100k congratulations
thank you...
I love the music... just reminds me of The Sims when I was a kid really enjoyed modeling without pressure lol
interesting, wish I saw this before college for some professions I was interested in
Very interesting
Great content
I wonder if there is any interest between how projects are developed now as compared to the days before computers.
We've come so far in CAD technology. In 1990 the version we used had 5-1/2" floppy drives to save our drawings. No such thing as double monitors back then!
The one had was with curved small screen and bulky.
Aaah and with blinking DOS operating system.
@@miltonwelch4177 Haha tu, MSDOS 6.22 seems so ancient now. I still use bat files.
@@jgboyer Ha, ha...
Screen filter on every monitor 😆
A great summary of the range of activities. Hiba also was much more optimistic about door schedules that you haha. Bain. Of. My. Existence. #necessaryevil #thankfulforrevit.
Love it
Yale is a good school for Architecture. I had a client/friend that went there and worked with Gehry. Also I worked in Environmental Design form and the project would easily take about five years.
Great video, was I prevented from having a job like this by my apparent inability to draw a straight line.😁
CAD had solved that problem.
Not that I approve.
I will look forward to seeing the Vanderbilt Graduate Housing as a Nashvillian and now knowing who is behind the residences.
Amazing, when I was making my praxis on architecture, I had a loot of jobs similar to hers, but in Kosova, where I am studying, we use ArchiCad instead of Revit, and Twinmotion for rendering, instead of Lumion wich she uses in this video.
This is the best profession a human can ask, there are boring times that is true, but this is what I live for, and it is not for everyone.
Note that very few architectural offices are capable of producing a correct door schedule or any other schedule for that matter.
Explicit note on each sheet stating that work is an intent only that has to be verified by the contractor takes care of being bit lazy.
Oh, and don't tell it isn't true.
There is a very valid reason for doing that - as I'm sure you know - and you're just trying to yank someone's chain. ;)
@@giotto4321 Competent are not afraid of my comment. If by "yank the chain" you mean that non-competent are being observed so be it.
@@miltonwelch4177 Aah yes, I suspected you'd probably not understand the reason. Never mind, as you were.
@@giotto4321 Simple observation how lot of incompetence is hiding behind "the reason"
and I got lectured by the stranger.
Haha pretty spot on , doesn't matter what level you are the dam schedules come on play .
a typical day for a draftsman is similar to what an architect goes through. in most cases we work solely on the model & produce drawings & schedules from it. what kind of drawings? it depends on the stage of the project. you could produce fancy renders & pretty colours at the early design phase to entice the clients, or produce drawings to satisfy the rules & regulations of local codes & building standards, or you could go full steam ahead & document in construction detail scale drawings. smaller firms might require their drafties to call up manufactures & ask for samples so they can glue them onto finishes boards to be sent to the builder for reference. in all cases we shadow the architect & do as much of the hands-on stuff while the architect deals with client, builder & consultants to keep the project moving.
my source? 16 years of being a professional Australian drafsman. ArchiCAD.
Actually your shores are much more in line with what architects do indoors. I do that also building inspection and quantity surveying. I think in this case the architech here is doing the typical shores of a architectural technician.
Hoop earring game off the charts 🤩
Her mouse pad is the best!
Revit is my jam.
Having worked for several companies in three European countries I can tell you that Architecture is only fulfilling as a Uni experience, and beyond that 99% of professionals I have met (many hundreds) agree that it is a soul and body crushing business - no doubt! Hand on heart to any young people considering architecture I can say, unless your parents have a well established architectural practice already: study sculpture, contemporary art etc. and stay well away from this business, it will only feed you crumbs of what you are hoping for.
Redpilled af.
I am in the same field and i feel so small looking at other architect’s works
I so respect you and she for showing the non glamorous side of the job.
If there is one thing I would rather eat broken glass than do again, it would be checking door submittals. For a 12-story Children's Hospital. By myself. While doing other CA work. Just no.
EDIT: Quick tip, determining a door swing is easiest by the "butt-to-butt" method: if your butt was to the door hinge, whichever of your arms describes the door motion is usually what the handing is (left hand or right hand). If you get into LH Reverse and such, then that chart she had is quite useful in making sure.
Another great video , thank you for the share, however seeing Hiba checking the whole list of doors is a little off-putting task for an architect. I chose architecture because I liked its artistic and philosophic aspects, but I think none of these are really what we will do in daily working life, so I am a little disappointed haha
For the door task looks like u need you bim manager to make a dynamo/python script to make it less manual because that job is a pain in the ... I know from my own experience.
So that's why I've seen so many buildings with doors being badly designed, opening on the wrong side and such.
This is really an amazing resource of a video, as someone outside the industry it's really never explained or spoken upon what architects specifically *do*. That being said im more sure than ever that I personally could not do it. Im very content with being textually and visually fascinated by the history and intricacies of it, and then playing make believe in the Sims. I might just look into Revit though.
Also, the camerawork in this video was very beautiful and definitely had the touch of an architect, don't know how else to explain it
Whenever there is an Architect in a movie they are always very hip, drive expensive cars, live in ultramodern houses, make lots of money, lead exciting lives flying to exotic places and showing incredible designs and models to their clients...if only the reality was like the movies.
Long hours, low pay, a crappy house in a cheap neighborhood that is in constant renovation mode, a ten year old Honda accord, a spouse that doesn't understand why you have to work so much. By the time you actually start to make a salary abouve the poverty level you are so burned out that you just want to retire...but you can't afford to. If you commit to this profession, you better love it, because it is all consuming.
wow, you've given me a spouse, how generous!
bro i feel your pain, but yeah no honda accord here, and no spouse... :P
Your bosses do all that stuff you described.
@@joaocosta3374 yeah, no.....there are some that may live that life, but the majority of us, including bosses do the tedious labor of drawing the construction documents, specifications, dealing with contractors, checking shop drawings...and on and on....
Another great video Stewart. Why was Hiba using a virtual machine? is that common these days. Does a Bentley come with the apartments too.
The whole firm uses them all the time. It's very easy for them to work from home.
@@stewarthicks Interesting, thank you
I don't know what I thought this would show me other than one of my days in the office. Architecture is big bore in firm. Guess this vid is more focused towards first years
What’s the purpose behind the grid
wall ? The cubics look great but seem to catch dusts easily
I really wanna do this as my career!!
Door schedule?
I sell windows and doors for large custom homes. This means almost ALL of my computer work is reading window and door schedules and then moving ALL of that into our quote system and checking it all over again. I always wondered if I was being overly dramatic with how tedious and monotonous it seems. I’m actually relieved to find out that architects feel the same way😂
Yes we enjoyed this video, why don't you make them all like this!!!!!!!!!!
The life of an architect is often glamorized in movies or on TV as a bow-tied man like George Costanza scrutinizing blue-prints and attending martini-fueled-power-lunches with Gerry, but there can be a lot of tedious tasks and long hours involved