It’s still a chip on my shoulder that some architecture students went on inexplicably well-funded architectural pilgrimages while I worked a grim summer desk job, writes the Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: When your principles are in doubt … delegate!
A Part 3 candidate is showing an alarming reliance on attributing all responsibility to the PD amid a Gordian knot of meaningless acronyms
The Secret Architect: Starting the New Year with a big vision
Like many things that were popular in 1990 (and 2007), ambitious urban masterplanning is BACK
The Secret Architect: the client and contractor are having illicit trysts
It’s awkward when you’re novated to Juliet but share a studio with Romeo’s design guardian, says the Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: Senior management bingo
The Secret Architect finds themself on the receiving end of someone else’s MBA
The Secret Architect: Triangulating the tedium
No one in their right mind starts this gig thinking they’re going to have wealth, stability and creative joy, argues The Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: Muyiwa Oki’s election gives me hope
Following Muyiwa Oki’s victory in the RIBA presidential election, we had drinks to celebrate what we each felt was ‘our win’, says The Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: I’ve rebranded part time as full time, 80% of the time
At this point in my life I’d rather have 20 per cent more time and make do earning 20 per cent less money, says the Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: The Executive Assistant is a necessary evil
The Secret Architect makes a pact with the Devil
The Secret Architect: When is an architect not an architect? When they’re a Part 2
Resources are consumed, traded and depleted. It’s not a label we should attach to people, argues the Secret Architect