Architect's Q & A
Architects around the world works under a twisted logic, we tell ourselves that:
Q: Working for long hours makes the project better and have more ownership to the project.
A: Research suggests that working long hours reduces the quality of work.
Q: Creativity doesn’t always happen between 9am to 5pm.
A: You are not creative at all after 5pm; you are most likely hungry and tired after your day of work. Theirs always a time when you get a burst of creative energy at 2am, but those moments are rare and you don’t want to hang around till them to emerge.
Q: We must suffer in the name of art.
A: We are suffering for our employer’s profit.
Read more - See what Andrew Maynard (Australian architect) had to say about work-life balance
Q: Working for long hours makes the project better and have more ownership to the project.
A: Research suggests that working long hours reduces the quality of work.
Q: Creativity doesn’t always happen between 9am to 5pm.
A: You are not creative at all after 5pm; you are most likely hungry and tired after your day of work. Theirs always a time when you get a burst of creative energy at 2am, but those moments are rare and you don’t want to hang around till them to emerge.
Q: We must suffer in the name of art.
A: We are suffering for our employer’s profit.
Read more - See what Andrew Maynard (Australian architect) had to say about work-life balance
As an architecture student's point of view
Number of hours students study per-week:
Reference of: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/number-of-hours-students-study/2012/05/21/gIQA3viTgU_graphic.html?hpid=z2