The Happy Healthy Architect

     Drawings    As you can see with my drawings above, architecture school isn't all about drawing floor plans and coloring building elevations, there is actually a lot more to the process than I thought there would be. For your first year of school you really just learn about the basics, and some things felt really basic. With the drawings above you can see that they are very different, and the one on the left I never thought I'd be able to draw. With the drawing on the right it felt super basic to me and was confused why we had to drawing cubes, I learned how to draw these in middle school and didn't see why it helped. But the more I learned I realized there was a process, and each thing we drew had a bigger meaning and would lead to something better in the future.  With these cubes we learned how to shade, how to create shadows that made the cubes feel real and 3D, and how to add on to make figures. After these cubes we got to bigger and better shapes. ...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Online classes as an Architecture student As an Architecture student you can't really do a lot of classes online. While lots of architecture in done through online apps and computer prog...

With being an architecture student, I have a lot of time consuming projects and assignments.  This is my third year of college and my third semester of being an architecture student. For those of you who have already been in college know that it is definitely a big step up from high school. More assignments, harder classes, harder to make friends, more time consuming classes, and the list could go on.  So for those of you who are thinking about getting into architecture I have a few tips to help you in your first year. The architecture classes you take right away will be drawing based. So if you really hate drawing it'll be a bit of a hustle for you. However, I loved to draw and I really enjoyed the process of each assignment and learning about all the little techniques. You might get a drawing assignment that your professor gives you a week to complete. you look at it and might think it'll take you and hour or two to complete so you start it a day before it's due. But what...

The Happy Healthy Architect Intro   Hey Guys! My name is Skylar Nelson I am an Architecture student at North Dakota State University in Fargo North Dakota. You may be wondering why I named this blog the Happy Healthy Architect, well it has to do with some of my other hobbies! Along with being in school for architecture I am also in love working out and trying to be happy and healthy and strong. As a fitness lover I have a few social media accounts related to my love of fitness and nutrition. I love encouraging people to be their healthiest selves and to coach them through their fitness journey. Being healthy and active are a huge part of a person's life and can affect everything from work life, to school, to being able to play with your kids or grand kids. So it is. huge goal of mine to make an impact on other lives and be the person they look to for help when needing inspiration and starting points to keep them motivated through their health journey. I few other things about me ar...