Download or read book To Be or Not to Be...an Architect?, digital original edition written by Roger K. Lewis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an essential text for the aspiring architect, this BIT offers realistic, unvarnished advice. A practicing architect and planner, professor of architecture, and architecture columnist offers reasons for becoming an architect (including “creative and intellectual fulfillment,” “love of drawing—without a computer,” and “immortality”) as well as reasons for not becoming an architect (including “lack of work,” “competition,” and “ego vulnerability”).