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"We cannot design just to please our clients anymore" says Yasmeen Lari

Deezen

Architects must stop waiting for commissions from wealthy clients and prioritise designing for the planet, says RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari in this exclusive interview. Architects have a very important role to play and we cannot design just to please our clients anymore or just to please ourselves."

Client 142
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Economic Pressures and Labor Challenges: How 2023 Shaped Architecture and Construction Industries

Archinect

The architecture industry was impacted this year by market volatility, rising interest rates, and evolving labor dynamics. This signaled a cautious approach by firm owners and clients alike amidst tightening credit conditions and rising interest rates.

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How Can Clients Ruin Their Own Construction Projects?

The Architecture Designs

Are clients any good in terms of construction projects? source: pinterest.com First things first, without clients and initiators, there would be no projects at all. The construction industry is quite broad. The construction industry is quite broad. Clients usually have a good knowledge of all the aspects of work.

Client 52
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Mattaforma considers "plants as clients" for Public Records outdoor space

Deezen

"With this in mind, we focused first on designing a space that relied solely on passive heating in the winter, treating the plants as our clients first, then adapting a plant-oriented space towards humans as our secondary clients." The photography is by Adrianna Glaviano.

Client 98
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Where modular housing meets digital client processes, new job opportunities emerge for architects

Archinect

In a 2021 feature titled For Affordable Housing, The Revolution Will Be Modularized , we explored one architect’s vision for an industrial-scale solution to the affordable housing crisis; one which centered on shipping-container-sized modules configured as various combinations of housing options.

Client 261
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Earth is the new client

Habitus Living

Since then, King has been reckoning with the impact of the design industry on the environment, leading her to reconsider the impacts of the profession, particularly in furniture and object design. It’s imperative now, that every design job is seen as both the client’s problem and the Earth’s problem in one.

Client 98
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Oliver Wainwright on RIBA's '100 Women: Architects in Practice,' a new primer for industry-wide change

Archinect

In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place. the clients who say they just can’t find women with the right experience. We’re not there yet.