Do you have the passion to become a professional architect who provides excellent architectural services for small and large planning, building, and design-related services in Kenya? Are you enthusiastic about both the sciences and the arts to design and engineering large structures and buildings? Do you want to gain knowledge from professional architects who have experience as well as specialization in the construction of commercial, historic, residential, and retail buildings? Architecture is a practice applied to achieve both the expressive and practical requirements of social-function structures.
Skills You Will Acquire From Architecture Courses
- Knowledge
of modern design, planning laws, and regulations
- Problem-solving
skills
- Excellent
communication skills, both written and spoken
- Ability
to meet deadlines and meet client’s requirements
- Ability
to perform duties individually as well as with a professional team
- Ability
to create quality drawings and plans, both by hand and via computer-aided
design programs
- Budgeting
and costing skills
- Writing
and submitting reports and proposals
- Knowledge
of new trends and vital issues in the architecture industry
- Organization and project management skills
What You Can Do With Architecture Course
Pursuing an architecture course will be capable of
performing the following architectural services;
- Artistic,
Creative, & Technological Design: As an architect, you
will be able to provide functional, imaginative, and aesthetic solutions
to a client’s construction needs. Helping with visualizing new, creative
solutions to problems that have been difficult to solve.
- Permitting: Produce
drawings and permits necessary for building permits or zoning. It can
involve reviewing informal negotiations with planning admins, regulators,
fire marshals, and other officials.
- Space
Planning: Provide a graphic layout showing the arrangement of
spaces, room layouts, as well as other activities making up a floor plan.
The training will help you to show the room shapes, dimensions, numbers
and types of spaces, and relationships for all desired spaces of a
building. For efficiency and functional success, multiple arrangements
know-how can be developed and evaluated.
- Contractor
Selection: As a professional and experienced architect, you
will help with the selection of professional Construction Managers. This
may involve the preparation of competitive bid packages, preparing
recommendations for award of bids, review of bids, preparing an
owner-contractor agreement, and construction administration services.
- Estimating
Cost: Preparing a report outlining options and related costs
for potential solutions to a given project goal, for example, changing the
usage of an existing structure. Often includes basic drawings or
sketches explaining the probable solutions.
- Building
Analysis: Undertaking assessment of a constructed building to
evaluate components such as windows, walls, floor plans, roofs, room
layouts, and equipment.
- Design
Building: To provide efficient as well as professional
development of new construction and renovate old construction plans that
accomplish design requirements and fulfill a client’s construction design.
- Construction
Cost Estimation: As an architect, you shall be able to
prepare a summary report highlighting all the options and estimated costs
for solutions to a given project.
- Review
a Building’s Energy Efficiency: Assess all the building
components, heating and, lighting systems, review the insulation levels,
assess operational features to review performance levels and adjustments
for energy use.
- Code
Analysis: As an architect, you will have knowledge on how to
review applicable codes such as the standard of availability, land use plans,
energy standards, and forms of regulations.
- Planning Site: To provide services regarding designing of site plans revealing boundary lines, building location, pedestrian access, potential development boundaries, sidewalks, landscaping, lighting, parking, surrounding context, among other features.
Other Architectural Services You Can Provide
Other additional services an architect can provide include
the following;
- Indoor
air quality and interior analysis
- Interior
design
- Accessibility
reviews and design
- Site
selection, studies, and design
- Land
use analysis and
design
- Historic
preservation research, evaluation, and design
- Preparing
existing building drawings and measurements
- Documenting
existing drawings and recently completed work
- Master
planning analysis and research
- Cost
estimating related to design options
- Project
information surveys
- Design
team integration management
- Conceptual
design and regional or cultural context
- Sustainability,
energy use, production analysis, and design
- Wastewater
and water use analysis and design
- Project
pre-design planning and programming
- Programming
services
- Interior
designing
- Renderings
and promotional materials
- Full-time
site representation
- Multiple
contract preparation and representation
- Landscape
designing
- Specifications
writing, bid package preparation
- Consultant
management and coordination
- Construction
administration, cost, time, and quality management
- Contractor
negotiation, bidding, contract, and process assistance to the owner
- Project-related
public agency coordination and management
- Illustration rendering and 3D design modeling
Types of Architects
Knowing the type of architect you want to become is
important so that you can acquire the right skills that are in line with your
passion. These are different types of architects;
- Commercial
architects – are experts in designing buildings that are
functional and practical for a large number of building users such as
towers, hotels, museums, hospitals, public buildings, etc.
- Residential
architects – Design and construct homes.
- Industrial
architects – design buildings such as houses, factories,
storage buildings,etc.
- Conservation
Architect – specialize in conservation consultancy and in the
restoration of protected and historic properties such as museums, castles,
palaces, etc.
- Landscape
architect – experts in designing and developing outdoor areas such
as private and public gardens, lawns, parks, squares, orchards, and
building walkways.
- Urban
designers – are involved in city planning to decide where
certain building facilities required by the community should be located.
- Interior
Architect – the art as well as the science of structural
components of how that design will take shape
Having training according to the right type of architect you
want to become, helps in nurturing you with professional experience and
training that can effectively impact the success of the build and also
enriching your career. Enroll today to become one of the most
preferred professional architects who provide excellent architectural services
of small and large planning, building, and design-related services in
Kenya.
Here is a list of the best institutions that offer architecture;
The University of Nairobi
Program duration; 4 years.
Minimum requirement- A-level Students to have a pass in
Maths, Chemistry or Physics.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture, Mombasa Campus
Course duration; 4years
Minimum Requirement – C+ in KCSE and any Certificate/Diploma
from a recognized institution.
The University of Nairobi, College of architecture and engineering
Course Duration; 4 years.
Minimum requirement – C+ in KCSE and a Pass in (Maths,
Chemistry or Physics)
Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture, Juja
Course duration; 4 years
Minimum Requirement – B- in KCSE and C+ (Maths &
Physics)
Technical University of Kenya
Course duration; 4 years
Minimum requirement – C+ in KCSE and C( Maths& Physics)
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