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Foster + Partners gender pay gap widest on record

Deezen

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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Building Architecture Communities with Stephen Drew

Young Architect

In today’s episode, Stephen talks about his experience working in recruiting for architecture firms. He explains what architects need to understand about recruiters and also talks about the ins and outs of finding a job as an architect. . What You’ll Hear on This Episode: What inspired Stephen to pursue a career in architecture.

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Norman Foster "to assemble the best minds" to rebuild Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Deezen

Along with representatives of the Norman Foster Foundation, Foster aims to recruit leading international and Ukrainian architects and designers to contribute to the reconstruction. "In Housing, hospitals, schools and heritage buildings, including an opera house, concert hall and government offices have reportedly been hit by shells.

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

Deezen

Nkrumah, who sometimes sketched designs for the buildings he wanted on napkins, created the first architecture school in sub-Saharan Africa to train a new generation of African architects, and this institution has partnered with us on a five-year research project into tropical modernism."

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

Deezen

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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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. Part III looks at how to intentionally create a values-based teaching and learning culture.

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

Deezen

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. "I

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