Architecture Social

From holding zero on the measuring tape to the hero of Chelsea Barracks. I was lucky enough to spend an hour having a great chat with Chris about his career, thoughts on architecture as well as advice for those in the industry. Chris has had key leadership roles on major redevelopment projects including Chelsea Barracks, The Shell Centre and One Tower Bridge. If only Chris took Tracy's tat back in the book shop it may have been a different story!

COVID aside! For now and the future, let’s discuss how to find out if you’re on a good salary in Architecture, assess your value and work towards earning that figure if you're below

In this week’s podcast, I was lucky enough to have a frank conservation with Petr Esposito about all things Architecture, an hour before a deadline! Come join us to learn more about Thirdway Architecture, Petr’s journey and some advice about what he looks for when interviewing for his team. The bells of time past were invented and thrown on the floor as well as a few horns honked in the making of this podcast. Explicit language, best listen at home or on headphones!

It's not as uncommon a feeling to think after studying Architecture that you may want to do something different. I did it! We learn so many skills from studying and working in Architecture, come to join us talk about proven alternative careers as well as some other ideas you may find useful.

In this week's podcast it was great to speak to Alvin about what Projects by People is all about - the highs and lows of producing content as well as us both feeling lost in Architecture sometimes.

Over the years working in Architecture and also Recruitment I've seen job boards change, some come and go and there is some success stories. On the other hand, everyone has been saying job boards are dying, expensive to use and useless for the job seeker and advertiser. Who is right and is COVID-19 the nail in the coffin for change?

Back with a BANG, did you miss us? We were lucky enough to sit down with Nylda Hamchaoui from The Architectural Experiment to learn, explore and muse. Come join us discuss architecture literature, journalism, job seeking and Stephen Drew’s bad habit of not reading Architecture books while studying. Also, there are a few bells and laughs too. SDx.

In this week's Spotlight, I was lucky enough to have a chat with Tom Shore who is support relations at a charity called the Architects Benevolent Society, a great organisation that help hundreds of Architectural professionals within our community.

Launching our community spotlight podcast, Stephen Drew from the Architecture Social and Sara Tabassum from :scale sit down to have a chat, discuss all the great things that Sana is up to and share with you all that is awesome about :scale Sana is a community member of Architecture Social with her own group. You can find her on www.architecturesocial.com or at her own fantastic website which is https://toscaleblog.co.uk/

Come listen to Martin Andrews (Principal Lecturer, Academic Lead and Architect at the University of Portsmouth) and Stephen Drew (Associate Director at Macdonald & Company and Architectural Assistant Part II) discuss how to get a job in the Architecture industry.