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Can I major in Architecture and minor in Environmental Science? Do they relate to each other?

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David’s Answer

Great question Kassandra,
While I'm not an architect nor an environmental scientist, I see a fundamental connection.
I work for a company who make industry leading software tools and platforms for the architecture, engineering, and construction industries.
As you might imagine, there are many decisions to be made when designing anything. Everything about a location's environment informs what the best decisions should be. They affect how usable, livable, affordable or profitable the development needs to be. How much will it cost to maintain. How many people can live or work there. Everything from the dimensions, orientation, choice of building materials, building method, heating or cooling requirements, even whether you build it in place or if it's more cost-effective to ship to the location, ready to assemble, and right up to the day-to-day operations once built are all influenced by the environment.
Understanding those requirements as an architect is a key part of the job.
I think you're asking the right question and know the answer.
Best of luck!

David recommends the following next steps:

Learn something about the steps required to build a home, an apartment, a hotel, a factory, an office and in different conditions.
Interview architects or architectural firms working in industries you're interested in. Residential, commercial, transportation, etc.
What are they looking for?
Can you see yourself doing this work?
Learn more about what's in an environmental impact report?
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Changhe’s Answer

Very good question, Kassandra,
Each category of science or technology can be further divided into multiple sub-categories. Each sub-category can be related to another category. That is very general idea. You probably know this long time ago. Let me give you a couple of examples.
-One owner of stone house found that his house had a lot of more erosion trace but do not know the reason as what causes the erosion.
-Most of old palaces in China do not exist any more, but Forbidden City is 600 years old and still open for visiting. (Of course some routine maintenance have been going.)
These are the just a couple of examples to reflect the fact that architecture and environment are related. It is certainly worthwhile for you to study further and develop your own unique expertise in the field you like.
Among other things I would like to emphasize that soon you will find out that more subject you will have to look into could be the material science. Also a lot of more subject such as, physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology and language.....
If you like the field you choose, choose the subject and look into it.
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Annie’s Answer

Architecture and Environmental Science could relate to each other. Since we use the the environment around us to make space for the many building structures that architects make plans for. Studying the environment around the structure you plan to build can be beneficial so that you can make sure to preserve anything important in whatever area you're building in. I suggest that you should look into it more to make sure that is something that you really want to do in your college career.
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Tova’s Answer

This is a great question! As the others have mentioned, I do think there is a connect between these two fields. But, I want to answer this from another perspective. In general, there is a lot of flexibility for jobs with what you major in in undergrad. Majors matter most for a few specific jobs (i.e. you need required classes to go to medical school or you need to have taken computer science classes to be a programmer/software developer). I would encourage you to study whatever most intellectually excites you, while keeping in mind that you may have to take specific classes for jobs you are interested in. But, there's no harm is taking classes that are unrelated to a job you may want. College is an amazing opportunity o explore your intellectual interests. The key is to ensure that you are building skills that can be applied to a job you are interested in (i.e. critical thinking, problem solving, etc). Personally, I think the passion you have for a field will help drive you further for two key reasons 1) you are more likely to absorb information taught if you are passionate about the topic, 2) that passion will come across in interviews.
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