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Gen Z are coming for your job – and that’s a good thing
Architecture seems to be breaking – or broken entirely. Why not let the profession’s youngest generation do their thing? asks Toko Andrews
Tag: Practice
Architecture needs a ‘rinse and repeat’ approach
We should move away from the idea of architecture as a finite product and instead embrace ongoing maintenance for our creations, argues Toko Andrews
Want a productive practice? Allow your architects distractions
By providing avenues for positive distractions, a practice can limit negative ones, writes Toko Andrews
Coach: How do I get back into work after raising a family?
Matthew Turner offers tips to an architect looking to returned to salaried employment after children
Coach: How do I make the switch to a different sector?
Matthew Turner offers advice to an architect looking to switch to a different sector of practice
Why the built environment B Corp movement is buzzing
As B Corp month draws to a close, Hattie Hartman reflects on why, despite the doubters, architects and developers are getting accredited
Don’t leave succession planning until it’s too late
Practices may be reluctant to take up valuable resources planning for succession. Yet few things are more important business-wise, argues Kunle Barker
Want to help the UK economy? Invest in our creaking planning system
Our poorly resourced planning system adds unnecessary obstacles to the kind of projects that are essential if our economy is to flourish once more, says Belsize Architects’ Shahriar Nasser
The Secret Architect: the client and contractor are having illicit trysts
It’s awkward when you’re novated to Juliet but share a studio with Romeo’s design guardian, says the Secret Architect
The squirmy business of designing family homes
I love watching architects squirm when they accidentally refer to the ‘homes’ they’ve built in their projects as ‘units’, writes Smith Mordak