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

Architizer

Evelyn Lee is the Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation at Slack Technologies, founder of Practice of Architecture , and co-host of the podcast, Practice Disrupted. She takes inspiration from her experience in tech and outside of the profession to reimagine practice operations for firms.

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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 per cent average for all 13 firms. per cent, up from 24.5

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Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

EntreArchitect

I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create. Architecture school need to teach architects how to better listen, communicate, as well as design. Anyone will be able to directly create buildings through software, no architect need apply. Its silly to say “Change.”

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Architectural Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

So I thought I would put together an architectural job “starter kit” of all the things you should be paying attention to if you’re planning on getting a job at an architectural office. My experience demands that I champion the advantages of working in a small firm, it’s what I know and love.