Self Taught Home Designers?

[Al Launier]

Used to, but very little these days due to the economy that hasn't fully recovered. Most of the builders around here are getting by with remodeling projects, plus re-sales dominate the market.

I started with CA5 back in 1999 & used their VHS cassettes (16 of them & I still have them), plus the manual to learn. Subsequently upgraded to CA6, CA9.5 and CA10 which is my latest version. It's been a good ride, but with the market as it is & my age I don't expect to be working with CA much longer, if at all for local builders.

[michaeljames]

Quote: ("I believe the word here is talent" - "you have the talent or you don't")
Architecture, design, art or what ever you want to call it

Who taught the great painters and artist over time?, I believe they may have been "self taught", most of them couldn't afford to own a donkey, horse and cart, go to day care, school, college or dare I say it "art school"

[RMorrison]

Who taught the great painters and artist over time?, I believe they may have been "self taught", most of them couldn't afford to own a donkey, horse and cart, go to day care, school, college or dare I say it "art school"

To whom are you referring? Rembrandt? Michelango? Virtually all of the great painters and sculptors spent a significant period of time as apprentices to other painters and sculptors. Pick someone you think is "great" and do a search for their background on wikipedia. You will find that virtually NO ONE was "self taught." Well, maybe Grandma Moses was self-taught, but I would not put her work in the same category as Rembrandt or Michelangelo.