Author Archives: The Secret Architect

Things have come to a pretty pass when redundancy seems to be the best option for a new architect, writes the Secret Architect

The Secret Architect has taken on some freelance work for a trendy ‘digital experience’ group

A chance discovery leaves the Secret Architect debating whether they have a future in architecture

What if we started boycotting temporary things altogether? No more Meanwhile Use gentrification. No more land-banking with ‘pop-ups’ that last for decades, or installations that claim to ‘provoke’

It’s still a chip on my shoulder that some architecture students went on inexplicably well-funded architectural pilgrimages while I worked a grim summer desk job, writes the Secret Architect

A Part 3 candidate is showing an alarming reliance on attributing all responsibility to the PD amid a Gordian knot of meaningless acronyms

Like many things that were popular in 1990 (and 2007), ambitious urban masterplanning is BACK

It’s awkward when you’re novated to Juliet but share a studio with Romeo’s design guardian, says the Secret Architect 

The Secret Architect finds themself on the receiving end of someone else’s MBA

No one in their right mind starts this gig thinking they’re going to have wealth, stability and creative joy, argues The Secret Architect