Architecture engineering
Architecture engineering is the field where architecture, the discipline of designing buildings and the spaces people live, work and gather in, and engineering meet on the building, and it is the work that sizes the structure and the system of the building that the architecture gives the form to, the field a graduate reaches after a 5 year programme and earns between 45,000 and 55,000 dollars a year at the entry role in the United States market. The field sits between the 2, the architecture that sets the form and the engineering that makes the form stand, and it is the work the building team does when the design of the building and the design of its structure are carried in one hand. The 2 disciplines are the form and the frame, and the field that joins them is the one this page defines.
What the field is
Architecture engineering is the work that joins the form of the building to the structure that carries it, and it is the 3 bodies of knowledge the field holds, the structure, the system and the envelope. The structure is the first, the frame that carries the weight of the building, the column and the beam and the slab and the foundation that hold the form up, and it is the work the structural engineering carries, the calculation that says the member will carry the load. The system is the second, the service that runs the building, the mechanical and the electrical and the plumbing that make the form usable, and it is the work the mechanical and the electrical engineering carry, the design of the air and the power and the water the building moves. The envelope is the third, the skin that keeps the weather out, the wall and the roof and the window that the architecture designs and the engineering sizes, and it is the work the 2 share, the surface that is the form and the structure at once.
| Body of the field | What it is | What it sizes |
|---|---|---|
| The structure | The frame that carries the weight | The column, the beam, the slab and the foundation |
| The system | The service that runs the building | The air, the power and the water the building moves |
| The envelope | The skin that keeps the weather out | The wall, the roof and the window |
The 3, the structure, the system and the envelope, are what the architecture engineering holds, and they are the work the field does, the building made to stand and to run and to keep the weather out, the form the architecture sets made to carry itself by the engineering that sizes the member.
How it compares to pure engineering
The comparison of architecture engineering to the pure engineering is the line between the form and the calculation, and it runs on the 2 questions each discipline answers. The pure engineering answers the question of the load, the member that carries the weight and the system that moves the service, and it works to the calculation, the number that says the structure will stand and the system will run. The architecture engineering answers the question of the form, the shape the building takes and the space it holds, and it works to the drawing, the line that sets the form the engineering then carries.
| Discipline | The question it answers | The deliverable it carries |
|---|---|---|
| The pure engineering | The load, the member and the system | The calculation that says the structure will stand |
| The architecture engineering | The form, the shape and the space | The drawing that sets the form the engineering carries |
The 2 meet at the member, the architecture setting the span and the depth the engineering sizes. The difference is the question each answers, the load and the form, and the field that joins them is the architecture engineering, the work that keeps the 2 in conversation.
Where the work leads
The route into architecture engineering runs off the degree in the field, and the graduate carries the qualification into the roles the field holds on the building team and into the wider work of the buildings it serves.
- Architecture jobs and careers run from the entry role that carries the form and the calculation toward the senior seat that signs the structure, and the field pays between the 2 disciplines it joins, the architecture and the engineering.
- Construction jobs and trades are the work that builds the member the field sizes, and the document the field issues is the one the trades read on the site, the construction drawing that carries the form to the member.
- Architecture books carry the field back to the studios that trained it, and the study of the buildings is the study the field teaches, the line that sets the form and the member that carries it.
- Architecture design is the first hand of the field, the studio where the form is set before the calculation sizes it, and it is the seat the field holds when the 2 are joined in one hand.
What the degree in the field carries
The degree in architecture engineering is the programme that teaches the 3 bodies of the field, and it sits between the architecture degree and the engineering degree. The architecture side carries the form, the 5 years of the studio that the B.Arch runs. The engineering side carries the calculation, the statics and the mechanics that the B.S. in engineering runs. The degree that joins them carries both, the form and the calculation, and it issues the qualification for the field.
What the field earns
The salary of architecture engineering is the pay the field earns, and it runs close to the 2 disciplines it joins, the architecture and the engineering, and splits toward the engineering at the senior rung. The entry figure of the field is near the entry of the 2, the 45,000 to 55,000 dollars the United States market pays for the entry role that carries the form and the calculation, the figure the architecture and the engineering share at the start. The senior figure of the field moves toward the engineering, the structural and the systems engineer clearing above the architect at the 10 year mark, because the engineering licence carries the higher price in the market, the PE figure above the architecture registration.
| Rung | The mark | The figure |
|---|---|---|
| The entry role | The start | 45,000 to 55,000 dollars |
| The senior role | The 10 year mark | Above the architect, the PE figure |
The field that joins the 2 is paid between them at the entry and toward the engineering at the top, and the salary is the number the degree of the field is weighed against.
Where the field sits on the building team
The place of architecture engineering on the building team is the seat between the architect and the engineer, and it is the seat the field holds when the 2 are joined in one hand. The architect on the team sets the form, the design of the building and the drawing that carries it, and the engineer sets the structure, the calculation that sizes the member and the system. The field that joins them sits between the 2, the hand that carries the form to the calculation and the calculation back to the form, the seat that keeps the 2 in conversation through the project.
| Office | The seat the field holds | What the seat does |
|---|---|---|
| The small office | The whole team, one hand | Carries the building from the brief to the construction document |
| The large office | The coordination seat | Holds the form and the calculation together and resolves the span |
In the small office the field is the whole team, the one hand that sets the form and sizes the member, the architecture engineering that carries the building from the brief to the construction document. In the large office the field is the coordination, the seat that holds the architect's form and the engineer's calculation together, the one that resolves the span the form asks and the member the calculation sets. The 2 ways, the small office and the large, are where the field sits, and the seat is the one between the form and the frame, the architecture engineering that carries the building as the shape and the structure together, the work the team does when the 2 disciplines are the 1 hand on the project.