De Tails...or...The Tails??

As being architecture students, I could guess that everyone might really be concerned about aesthetics in their careers, at least I am one of those.

Whether this part of your career is intertwined with your daily life habits or your daily life habits have an effect that makes your career just better… for me this is how serious people thrive and become creative. By those “habits” I mean the way we actually care and be devoted to our work.

Most of the students are finely creative, and indeed they are very dedicated in their work , but the thing that I notice frequently in their presentations is the lack of the touch of perfection.

This touch is just something that is neglected by so many, they even consider it trivial enough to ignore its existence in architecture while it is an important issue to consider. They fail to notice the necessity of details.

Details are just what architecture is about, an architect must be aware of how to create an architecture carefully designed, and must be aware of every detail in the project, this includes pretty much the language being used to describe the project. Whether it is in Arabic or in English, each student must be knowledgeable of the essences of each language used in the presentation, and for what I see that English is being raped, how is this happening?

Well, students here consider themselves architects already and by this ignorant ego of theirs, they have drifted by thinking they are perfect, but when coming to see their perfection you get a shock to find that such an important term in our career, widely used and students dream of every day, has been used in a presentation misspelled!

“Concept” is not a common spelling error word and it is easy to be memorized since it’s very familiar to architects, so how on earth perfect architects don’t know how to spell “concept” correctly??! and how on earth perfect architects don’t know how to distinguish between “ Special” and “Spatial” ??!

These errors are driving me crazy, because they are not common and the terms we use in architecture are pretty much easy to learn unlike Medicine terms, I am even surprised to see “Architecture” misspelled!

Is it that hard for students to learn how to spell words? Or is their pride too hard to be broken to ask for help? In both ways learning and asking for help is not a shame and what would be shameful is to be a 3rd-year-student who doesn’t know how to spell a familiar word correctly as much as a 3rd-year-student who doesn’t know how to draw a section! And it would be better now to do mistakes and get them corrected, because we are here to learn anyway, and this process of learning is very effective in memorizing words and spelling them correctly so in future errors can be avoided and thus perfection can be seen clearly.

peace,,,