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Weekly Architect Dec 2011
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When it comes to architecture, Chris Whittle knows what he is talking about. He is pursuing the subject, but has challenges ahead. Recently, The Weekly Architect sat down with this aspiring professional to speak about his personal and professional goals:
I have wanted to become an architect since I was 14, when I hand-drew my future dream house. That triggered me to apply to Worcester Technical High School (formerly Voke). I was accepted into the Drafting program, where I studied for four years and did practical work on AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor. I transferred the plans electronically, and eventually did 3D modeling in Google Sketchup. I learned [Sketchup] on my own for the most part, without the instructors assistance. They were impressed. I graduated in 2009 with honors.
Most of your classmates did not get jobs after graduation because of the poor economy, right?
Unfortunately, that was the case. Most of us did not even get co-op jobs because employers had laid-off their regular people and had to pay who was left. The drafting department required on paper that seniors serve a co-op position in order to graduate, but this was waived. Students from the other trades didnt get jobs either, but the flipside is that Worcester Tech is a Chapter 74 program, and Chapter 74 of the Massachusetts General Laws says that work experience from vocational-technical schools must be paid. This was written back in the dark ages when vocational high schools were for students who were not college material. Boy, times have changed, and I was encouraged by my guidance counselor to apply to colleges. As far as the compensation requirement, I think unpaid internships should be substituted if possible. Continued on next page
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Continued from the previous page Career Highlights for Chris Whittle
on, if we get any! You need family, and my family now is mostly elderly and you never know when they are going to pass away. So my family has to radically get younger. Catholicism requires very rigid requirements for marriage, and thats why Im not married yet. I hope that changes within the next few years. There are many of my peers at QCC that are older and married with grandchildren. So if they can go to school married and parenting, certainly with the grace of God I can. If you and your [future] wife eventually decide to run a business, what will you two design? Well see. But I would really not design a Catholic house of worship if they say the Vatican II Mass because it misleads a lot of people! Chris Whittle may be reached via email at crwhittle11@gmail.com.
Graduate draftsman from Worcester Tech Associates in Applied Arts candidate Proficient in AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Sketchup, and the Adobe Creative Suite Chaired BSA Religious Architecture committee from 2009-11 Currently seeking application into three architecture programs: Wentworth, Northeastern, and Mass Art.
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Texas
As an ongoing, in-progress project, this new church and school complex in the hot Texas heat will have a state of the art quality classrooms that are energy efficient. The church will seat 500 and the school should have approximately 300 students from kindergarten through grade 12. The exterior blends the school and church together in a Notre Dame de Chartres style, athough you have to enter the church part from the side door. The church is traditional, athough the choir loft is invisble behind the high altar and above the sacristy. The sancutary seats a priest, deacon, subdeacon, and up to 21 altar boys, for some may also sing in the schola. There is a Gothic confessional and a separate baptistery near the main entrance as Baptism is needed to enter the church; the Rite of Baptism begins at the church door.
(Above) Hand-sketch of the high altar (Left) Google Sketchup section view of the sanctuary
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