Visit to Robert A.M Architects

Two BAC participants, Eddie Paulino and Edwin Velasquez, have a great interest in pursuing a career in architecture. We are both students at In-Tech Academy 368 and are taking part in the Dreamyard BAC program. For one of our trips, our instructor decided to take us on a visit to Robert A.M Stern Architects, LLP. There we met Peter Morris Dixon, the Director of External Communications, or basically, the head of the marketing department. Dixon guided us around the firm where we saw architects working on current models. The architectural models impressed us tremendously, because of all the art and patience involved in the process. We were also able to talk with some of the architects, and they explained to us how they loved their jobs and that they had planned to work in an architecture firm since their childhood. This trip changed the way I thought about architects and architecture. Everyone always told me that architecture was all math, and thanks to technology and programming, it's still math. However, architecture isn't just math, so they were proven wrong. At Robert AM Sterns, I was able to experience that architecture is about the art of building structures, creating realities, and making an idea come to life.