Recently I have met so many talented people in the industry that I aim to go into. Last Tuesday, I met Christine Murray who is the editor of the Architects Journal through a lecture series that we run at my university. It was possibly the best lecture that I have attended. She has achieved so much, for women within architecture and for herself. I feel that my focus on Architectural Journalism is so positive at the moment and it makes me sad to say that it is the only motivation for getting through my degree, the prospect of the end. I am genuinely counting down the days until my graduation. Which brings me on to last Thursday, when I attended a graphics workshop with the brilliant Patrick Myles who is the editor of the RIBA Journal. Again, an absolutely inspirational person who is so well rounded with his skills. He has made me question whether I would steer towards the graphics side of editing rather than the writing, but I have many decisions still to make and plenty of time.
I love talking to accomplished people in the field of journalism, especially those who didn't start off within an Architectural background. Hopefully they can help me get a Architectural Journalism Internship for this summer, I've hopefully got an interview for Wallpaper Magazine in Southwark but prospects of Blueprint are becoming an option too. I'm so excited for the summer and to work within a magazine. Architecture is torture for me currently and design is difficult. I just get sidetracked thinking of ideas and wanting to publish my thoughts and I get mental blocks where I can't draw. I have all these ideas and I can't translate them into spaces or drawings, or when I do, they're too abstract for my tutors to understand. They're too sketchy or unrefined, but personally that is my style and theres not much I can do about that. Despite loving the diversity of my modules, I am finding that my style is being moulded into those of my tutors and I despise it. I hate how Architecture is so subjective sometimes because it actually goes the other way, and people only consider talent if it is similar to their own.
I've just got to focus but I'm counting down the days to when I don't have to think about plans and sections and technicality. I look forward to a career of criticising yet admiring and adoring architecture.
