A mildly disgruntled engineer once told me at length duringa car journey that no engineers were well regarded in the UK apart from one group.This group, he explained, had the good sense not to call themselves engineers. They tended to dress in polo neck jumpers, wear angular glasses, and call themselves architects.This group, he argued, were universally lauded and even elevated to the House of Lords with no controversy.But architects are not engineers, although they work closely together. Kirstie Robbins, a director with the architecture practice Ptolemy Dean Architects, points out that architects, in fact, tend to come from a very different background from engineers. "It tends to attract people from the arts side, possibly because of the way that architecture degrees are set up with their emphasis on drawing."
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机译:一位不满心怀不满的工程师曾在一次汽车旅行中详细地告诉我,除了一个小组外,在英国没有其他工程师受到重视。他们倾向于穿着polo领毛衣,戴有角眼镜并自称为建筑师。他认为,这群人受到了广泛的称赞,甚至被提升到上议院,没有争议。 。 Ptolemy Dean Architects建筑实践主管Kirstie Robbins指出,事实上,建筑师往往来自与工程师截然不同的背景。 “它倾向于吸引艺术界的人们,这可能是因为建筑学学位的建立方式着重于绘画。”
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