Architecture is a profession where you learn by drawing.
Certainly you learn some things from books, but mainly it’s about drawing it again and again, addressing the same problems over and over again in each of its unique permutations for any given project.
And that’s for the technical aspects of the profession, even more so for those who have gone into the aesthetic design aspects of this art.
If there is one thing I rue from jumping sides, it’s the loss of this practice, but then again I was on a similar path within the profession as I headed towards lower middle management.
As a friend once said, one of the main career tracks in this gig is that you go from managing drawings to managing projects to managing people – and that is especially true if you’re not one of those guys who have not gone the route of wielding the big fat design pen.