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Foster + Partners gender pay gap widest on record

Deezen

The gender pay gap at Foster + Partners is the widest it has been since the data was first compiled six years ago despite an overall improvement at the UK 's largest architecture firms year-on-year, official figures show. Foster + Partners, which has around 1,200 architectural staff in the UK , is by far the UK's largest studio.

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Building Architecture Communities with Stephen Drew

Young Architect

Encouraged by a friend (who is now a famous You Tuber), he sent out a large number of CVs and ended up landing a job in a top firm as his first job. In today’s episode, Stephen talks about his experience working in recruiting for architecture firms. Where Stephen went to architecture school.

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Gender pay gap widens at almost half of UK's largest architecture studios

Deezen

This means that for every £1 earned by men working at the UK's largest architecture firms, women on average earned only 83.5p. Foster + Partners, the UK's largest architecture firm with more than 1,000 employees, had a mean pay gap of 22.3 But at all 11 firms which paid bonuses men were awarded more than women on average.

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The Culture of Architecture Needs an Overhaul, Part II: Historical Background, Today’s Context and Future Steps

Architizer

Studio Culture in Architecture Schools In their design for the Abedian School of Architecture in QLD, Australia, Crab Studio sought to rethink the traditional bounds of architecture’s pedagogical spaces. Firms are currently operating in an employee marketplace.

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Architectural Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1. So right on Bob.