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Building Bridges: join Roma Agrawal’s talk on Tuesday 25 May
Trailblazing structural engineer, writer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal will be discussing building bridges, legacies and equality in this free-to-attend virtual W Programme event
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Information for practising architects on Building Regulations, AI, careers, fees, planning and business updates. You can also find information about AJ100 – architecture’s power list – as well as student education and wider architectural culture
How can we go beyond box-ticking on diversity in architecture?
While architecture is starting address its problems with race and diversity, some initiatives have been accused of ‘BAMEwashing’. Is such a label fair or helpful? We asked five architecture professionals how they feel the profession could best tackle these issues
The Coach: Will my career be limited to being a CAD monkey?
AJ Coach Matthew Turner advises an architect who fears their employer may only want them for their tech skills
Say no to all nighters: why toxic overwork has to stop at school
As the RIBA looks to end unpaid overtime in practice, architectural assistant Sana Tabassum argues that students should work together to end all-nighters – starting by being more honest
Purcell hands ownership of the firm over to employees
AJ100 practice Purcell has become the latest big-name company to transfer ownership to its staff
Architect suspended after wrongly advising no consent was needed for loft work
A man from the West Midlands has been suspended from the Architects’ Register after he advised a client that she would not need planning permission to insert a dormer in her loft
Architects need to share sustainable best practice quickly
Industry-wide collaboration, with architecture firms sharing their successes and failures openly and honestly is the only way to keep up with our rapidly evolving sustainability goals, says Kunle Barker
‘New era’ and new name for Manchester practice as Roger Stephenson retires
Roger Stephenson, 75, a leading light of the Manchester architecture scene, has retired and handed over the reins of his practice to two of his long-standing colleagues
Unpaid overtime: most architects back RIBA crackdown plans
The RIBA’s plan to ban unpaid overtime at chartered practices has been broadly welcomed by architects, but critics have voiced concerns it will fail to eradicate the problem
The Coach: I feel passed over for promotion
AJ Coach Matthew Turner advises an architect who is concerned about their lack of progression within the practice