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Stay optimistic – your profession is the stronger for it
This year’s AJ100 survey shows that optimism among the UK’s biggest practices has not only bounced back as the pandemic eased but soared to its highest level since 2015, writes Emily Booth
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Why I don’t speak to white architects about race
Black people encounter obstacles in their professional lives of a kind unimagined by their white counterparts. Kunle Barker shares a personal testimony illustrating an insidious problem that blights the construction industry
The Regs: Designing safely with cross-laminated timber
Geoff Wilkinson looks at fire safety concerns surrounding structural CLT
The Coach: Should I take a job at a ‘meh’ practice or hold out for somewhere more prestigious?
Working for a less distinguished name may be more fulfilling and useful for career development than you think, advises Matthew Turner
Astragal: Schumacher foments anarcho-capitalist revolution
Patrik Schumacher is a busy man. Not content with running a 700-person company as principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, the German architect is also publishing a ‘serialised treatise’ about anarcho-capitalist revolution, which he advocates. The first instalment, as subscribers to Schumacher’s newsletter will know, was an 8,000-word essay ruminating on…
Do we really want Nine Elms remembered for a gimmicky swimming pool?
The redeveloped area stretching from Battersea Power Station to Vauxhall seems like a missed opportunity; yet it is not too late to capitalise on the area’s industrial potential, argues Dennis Austin
The Bartlett is the tip of the iceberg … a toxic culture is widespread in schools
After the revelations of bullying and discrimination at The Bartlett, we need to make sure all universities are doing enough to protect students, writes recent Part 2 student Mariam Al-Irhayim
Bartlett chiefs: Report makes for painful reading – this behaviour must stop now
How does the Bartlett change its culture of bullying, harassment and discrimination? Responding to the damning report which laid bare an array of serious allegations, leading figures at the school Christoph Lindner and Jacqui Glass say it is time for a radical reset
The Bartlett’s issue was the biggest open secret in architecture and we all did nothing
The profession knew what was happening at the Bartlett but did nothing to stop it, writes former UCL student Eva Datta
What can we learn from the German planning system?
Germany and the UK both have planning systems that are democratic, operating on a national, regional and local level. What lessons can we learn from one another? asks Frederic Akuffo