Creative Architects: What They Do When They’re Bored

So, just imagine you are a creative architect and you have been selected to design and building an amazing structure in downtown. What a rush right? You better believe it is! The project starts and you spend years designing the perfect structure to exacting specs. The clients and investors are thrilled. Now, it’s time to build the structure. That takes years also to see your vision rise into the downtown skyline. It has been ages since the start of the project to the finish of the building. In between the start and finish, you are busy, but there are periods where things are slow or stopped. So, what does an architect do when they are in a lull in their current project?

Creative Architects Find Creative Outlets

If you know a creative, their minds never stop. You can bet they have a notebook by the bed for notes when they wake at 3 am and need to jot down an inspiration. Their minds are consistently in high gear and they don’t stop, just because of a lull in the project. Matter of fact, for an architect, that down time can be extremely frustrating. Many of those creative minds turn to fields as diverse as filmmaking and boatbuilding to spur creativity, develop ideas, and hone skills. It helps that they’re already good at three-dimensional thinking and digital manipulation.

“A world which sees art and engineering as divided is not seeing the world as a whole.”

– Professor Sir Edmund Happold

Here are a few areas that creative architects dabble in when they aren’t building:

Furniture – Architects love designing chairs, and the best of them have penned some classics.

Jewelry – Some use CNC milling and 3-D printing to create intricate jewelry fashioned from precious metals and composite materials.

Video Games – Video game designers create worlds, which makes the medium a natural for architects.

Wallpaper – Anonymous architects have taken wallpaper to new levels with digital, artsy formats.

Lighting – Architects love lamps almost as much as they love chairs, and they’re often reimagining the form.

From the Factory Floor

Progress rendering to a wooden handled brass lantern…

~ by ADG Lighting