Not everyone who studies the five year B. Arch. degree course does it, or can do it... the exciting venture of setting up own office. Most graduates prefer to work in some office for some time before discovering their true calling... some simply give up, get married and settle down... some continue to work in an office or change offices till they settle down with a career of working under someone.

Some others with an academic bent of mind pursue higher studies and get into the teaching profession, many of them with practically no connection with the world of practice trying to preach what they themselves don't practice.

Yet, there are the select few with the itch in them since the college days to be an independent practitioner of the wonderful, challenging profession of architecture. And once they get into it, they never retire... or rather, architects can never retire.

Architects bloom better with age and grow younger in their world vision as they grow old physically in this world. Most of the master architects gave their best to the profession in their senior years. And all had very humble beginnings in the world of practice.

There was a time when you could set up your practice with nothing but a drawing board, T-square and set squares as tools of the trade and one or two physical human contacts as clients.

Not any more. Today we have sophisticated tools of the trade for representation of designs and production of drawings. In addition to these we also have the global connectivity systems and tools, all essential to set up practice, in a dynamic, ever changing world of building design and construction.

Even with the availability of all these essentials, one cannot ignore some basic necessities... as follows, which give clarity to the purpose of architectural practice...

SO YOU ARE A GRADUATE!

JUMP INTO THE PROFESSION, IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE, AND ALL OF THE ABOVE, TO BEGIN WITH...

ALL THE VERY BEST...