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Foster + Partners gender pay gap widest on record

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Foster + Partners, which has around 1,200 architectural staff in the UK , is by far the UK's largest studio. Foster + Partners has recruited more women than men during 2022/2023 as we encourage diversity," a spokesperson told Dezeen. This results in our median pay gap increasing to 14.4 per cent across all staff grades."

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V&A's Tropical Modernism exhibition explores "the politics behind the concrete"

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According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition aims to examine the complex context, power dynamics and post-colonial legacy of tropical modernism – an architectural style that developed in South Asia and West Africa in the late 1940s – while also centralising and celebrating its hidden figures.

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Tongji University's College of Architecture and Urban Planning marks 70 years with Global Dean's Forum

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Promotion: Shanghai 's Tongji University is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its College of Architecture and Urban Planning with the Global Dean's Forum, a day-long event bringing together 11 major architecture schools from around the world. The school is now also starting to recruit post-doctoral researchers from abroad.

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

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Stride Treglown believes its average gender pay gap is primarily caused by having fewer women at senior grades in the practice," said Caroline Mayes, people and development director at Bristol-based Stride Treglown. Independent architecture school the Architectural Association also published figures.

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Architecture education needs "decolonisation and decarbonisation" says London School of Architecture head Neal Shasore

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Shasore plans to use his previous experience as a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge's architecture school and as a course tutor for the MArch professional practice studio at the Royal College of Art to overcome some of the potential pitfalls that architecture institutions fall into when trying to become more inclusive.

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"We'll be graduating smart, caring, compassionate activist students" says new head of Pratt undergrad programme

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As head of the school's undergrad programme, Slaughter will have a key role in enacting many elements within the plan. One of the planks of the DEI strategic master plan is hiring and recruitment, as well as creating a welcoming environment," he said. Read: Harriet Harriss named dean of Pratt Institute School of Architecture.

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Architectural Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This means that as a younger person, you get to share in the excitement that an owner generally has over the development and construction of their new project. Ann Having never been interested in “corporate” architecture firms of hundreds of people, the first office I worked for out of college was a 3-person office.