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Looking for in an Architect for your Home – What, Why and How

Do you need to find an architect to work on your home? If you are a homeowner and have never used an architect before it is a confusing situation to be in. Do you look in the Yellow Pages? Do you search online? How do you know what you need and what to look for? [...]

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The Future for Architects – Have another Look

I’ve been working myself up to review the RIBA Building Futures report ‘The Future for Architects’ for ten days since it was launched. For me, if writing a blog post takes that long it is usually because there is something bugging me, and there is. Lets start with the nitpicking. Firstly I thought – great, [...]

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What would you say to a teenager thinking about a career in architecture?

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I’ve got an interesting meeting today. I’m having coffee with a young woman who is thinking about what careers she should be aiming for. And I wondered if you could help me. She wants to be an architect, and as you know it isn’t a career I would suggest as ideal for a young person [...]

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The RIBA should promote Architects not just Architecture

I was delighted to get a phone call at the end of last year from a digital agency that has been commissioned to help the RIBA decide what to do with their online directory of practices. At last! As you may be aware I’m a champion of the online RIBA directory, but I think it [...]

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What Architects are saying – your daily fix

Every day hundreds of architects all over the world share dozens of articles and blog posts from all over the internet through their messages on twitter. Now you can see a daily newspaper of what they have shared. I’ve collated the shared links, articles, blogs and comment of over 1000 architects on the twitter league [...]

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Architects Low Pay – What to do about it

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Low Pay is a subject of some discussion amongst architects, not least in the UK, where Keith Tomlinson has set up a Facebook Page ‘Architects Against Low Pay’ to campaign for change. When I wrote about this in June I made the point that tackling Low Pay in Architecture also means “teaching people who have [...]

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Architects who Tweet on a Map – version 2

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Click here for a fully functional version of this map Where are all the architects who use twitter based? As you know I’m keen to demonstrate how architects use twitter and who uses it. In the past I’ve found a Yahoo Pipes mashup with twitter and a map which shows up to the last 500 [...]

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Architect’s Low Pay – the RIBA responds

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On Thursday the RIBA issued a press release, RIBA President Ruth Reed takes action to tackle student hardship and low pay, which set out proposals to deal with financial hardship amongst architecture students, graduates and young practitioners.
The proposals include:

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UK Architects Practices increase but sizes shift – RIBA

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In September of 2009 there were 4.9% more RIBA Chartered Practices than at the same time in 2008, according to RIBA Director of Practice Adrian Dobson. Figures released by the RIBA show a change in distribution of practice size which has penalised one man bands and larger firms in favour of small and ‘micro’ firms [...]

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Have a Chat with the American Institute of Architects – #AIAChat

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One evening in April whilst cooking dinner, I stumbled upon a conversation going on amongst members of the Architects Twitter League which I just had to join in with. The members of the league were discussing what architects do and how the profession can retain young architects, and they were having the discussion with anyone [...]

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