Monday, February 26, 2007

My journey with my branch Architecture

It’s the time for applications, it’s the time for exams and it’s the time for making a decision. Six years behind now, was my plus two stage when I had to fill in the application for the so called engineering entrance exam of my state. My dad filled in the application adding an extra fifty rupee demand draft. It was for the architecture with which I had congenial tastes. That day I never knew that this demand draft is gonna influence my life. Been in the college as the first person to include an extra DD and the in charge who know nothing better what he is told, tried to detach the draft stapled to my application, soon should I praise my father who expected this deed right before, asking me to tell him that its for architecture. An hour later, a notice went through every class saying that students interested in architecture aptitude must attach a fifty rupee draft.
Silently learning for myself and proud to have such a papa, have reached a stage where I could get into the architecture branch of once again the so called prestigious university where in which they are less seats even for the very best qualified. This is the day where I started experiencing a new life, new environment and especially a new branch which also influenced my lifestyle and character in the way I expected. Colors, textures and forms in subject and also in life. Good friends, worthy senior, few juniors and one teacher made up my life with architecture. It showed me the hardship, the leisure and the result. Case studies, design assignments, trophy works, everything do possess life themselves. Tours we went around and things we learnt are those which no other subjects provide built-in.
All this ended showing me only one dimension of architecture and today I am here learning a new perspective of architecture and design on a whole in relation to human, addressed as A Holistic Human Settlement Design. Hope I would at least complete knowing a part of this vast subject which would help me to become the creator of a comfortable space in competition with our heavenly Father who seemed to be the architect of this earth. What I am today is therefore because of my parents and my education and specially my subject architecture.