Time Management: Can architects afford to be systematic?

One of the most important advice given by more experienced architects to students is to get organized and mange time properly. Architecture profession is a unique blend that requires both creativity and technicality. In a real time scenario architecture projects need to be time limited.

Being systematic in the office can provide many benefits to the architect both professionally and personally. In the professional sense of things, being organized or systematic means careful planning of the daily routine. As a professional, the architect will have to tend to numerous tasks on a daily basis, some may be routine tasks while others may come and go from time to time. Careful analysis of these task is the first step to getting organized.

Once the tasks are analyzed the architect can carefully plan on which activity/task to tend to and what is the right time to do so? Once a proper plan is laid out, during execution minor changes can be made to fine tune the plan. This is one of the methods practiced by many architects which have yielded good returns.

The importance of creative designs in architecture cannot be over emphasized and everybody knows that a time limit can be imposed on a creativity. This is a myth that is making most of the architecture firms to shy away from time management practices and systems within the office.

Many architects have a problem with work-life balance and most them blame work overload. This may be true but many seasoned architects have clearly stated that by being organized and systematic they have been able find balance time for work and life. So being systematic clearly has its advantages and it should be practiced not only by architects but all professionals

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