• Question: What's the difference between designing buildings as an engineer and being an architect?

    Asked by llama to Roma on 19 Jun 2014.
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      Roma Agrawal answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Excellent and very important question.
      Architects do drawings to say how they want a building to look- engineers do the maths and science behind it to make it actually stand up. Without engineers, none of the crazy ideas that architects come up with would exist!
      They also have to know about how to put the whole building together, so work with all the different engineers to make sure the water, electricity, structure, and more fit together.

      If you like maths and science then engineering is the way to go 🙂
      But you can also do a joint degree in structural engineering and architecture and choose later!

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