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Taught by
Nenad Katic
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IE Business School

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r/architecture • comment
2 points • WizardNinjaPirate

There is also this one, https://www.coursera.org/learn/making-architecture that covers some very basic things.

r/Advice • comment
2 points • Toystorations

I typed this up for your other thread but it got locked, so here you go.

Gap years are meant to ready yourself for what you want from your future.

Try using it to research architecture and decide if that's what you want. Go get tours of buildings and see parks that are famous for their design. Take photos of everything to show you used your year well.

If you're staying in the same area, before you dump your life into a big 4 year college, maybe consider taking a community college course on architecture, get some hands on learning experience to figure out if that's the direction you want to go in, with very little cost.

You could even try something on coursera for free.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/making-architecture?

figure out if you really are interested in that as a field outside of it being one of the few options in your high school career that were available to you. Make sure you care enough about it before you dive in, you know?

If you decide you're dead set on college, you can go straight to it and take the SATs and all that and see how you do, see what your options are. Give yourself the opportunity, and then focus on getting credits in core classes your first year while you figure this out, so you aren't a year behind everyone else. You can always change your major or figure out what you want after you've started, if you're certain college is for you.

Basically, you have some choices to make. A school guidance counselor could help you but I imagine a lot of them are old fashioned and will push you towards college because that's kind of their job, but that doesn't mean they won't also have good insights for you aside from their agenda.

r/urbandesign • post
30 points • Sihal
Becoming an urban designer

Hi all,

I’m finishing my master in Computer science, but some time ago I realized this is not what I want to do in my life. I have only my master thesis left, so I want to graduate, however, then I want to change my career path to urban design and planning. I think my studies will give me some benefits and tools I can use, like soft skills, problem solving, analytical thinking, etc.

Since a long time I was fascinated in urbanism, how cities work, the way they can change people lifes and how to create more friendly spaces. That’s why I created the list of tasks I should get familiar with. I’m working, so I want to fulfill them in my free time, after work and during the weekends.

  1. Practice urban landscape drawing and sketching: https://www.udemy.com/urban-drawing-and-design-101/learn/v4/overview I think this is quite important skill to learn, even in a digital era.
  2. Learn GiS: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/gis
  3. Read books based on programme of some studies. Here’s the list of books I created:
  4. Happy city by Charles Montgomery(Read already)
  5. Cities for people by Jan Gehl(read already)
  6. Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice
  7. The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
  8. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
  9. The Art of Making Cities by Camillo Sitte
  10. Design of Cities by Edmund Bacon

    HERE I”VE FOUND LONG LIST OF BOOKS: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/Bazinga+Catalog+PDFs/Planning+%26+Urban+Design+Textbooks+US.pdf Which one are worth to read and about which I shouldn’t bother?

  11. Do some online courses:

  12. Future cities: https://www.edx.org/xseries/future-cities-0#why-this-program
  13. Making Architecture: https://www.coursera.org/learn/making-architecture
  14. Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gte-sustainable-cities
  15. Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world: https://www.coursera.org/learn/urban-development
  16. Designing Cities: https://www.coursera.org/learn/designing-cities
  17. A Global History of Architecture: https://www.edx.org/course/global-history-architecture-mitx-4-605x-0
  18. The Architectural Imagination: https://www.edx.org/course/architectural-imagination-harvardx-gsd1x
  19. Management of Urban Infrastructures – part 1: https://www.coursera.org/learn/managing-urban-infrastructures-1
  20. Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures: https://www.coursera.org/learn/smart-cities

After getting more familiar with theory and tools used during designing and planning, I think the next step should be to apply for an internship or apply for postgraduate programmes(mostly 1 year long).

What do you guys think about it? Any recommendations, tips? I based my programme partially on Amsterdam’s Urbanism studies.