The Incas were not so risk-averse as the architects of today, if the Stirling Prize shortlist is anything to judge by
The Secret Architect: Shit sandwich
The employer of one of the Secret Architect’s Part 3 tutees has introduced performance improvement plans. Time to deploy a favourite feedback tool
The Secret Architect: The practice banking on burnout
The Secret Architect is jobhunting – and finds a practice where staff burnout is baked into the business model
The Secret Architect: For this guy, I’ll risk some bad karma
I know it’s bad karma to rain on other people’s success. But let’s be honest, we all have one ex-colleague who is so insufferable it’s worth risking a decade of rain on your birthday, writes the Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: Absent intelligence
The danger with artificial intelligence, says the Secret Architect, is that everything stays as it is, but with the fun part outsourced to AI
The Secret Architect: Brazilians do it differently
The Secret Architect attends a PCSA meeting in Rio de Janeiro
The Secret Architect: The soul-destroying experiences of a Part 3 candidate
Things have come to a pretty pass when redundancy seems to be the best option for a new architect, writes the Secret Architect
The Secret Architect: I’ve been outed as Another. Bloody. Architect
The Secret Architect has taken on some freelance work for a trendy ‘digital experience’ group
The Secret Architect: My gut tells me to quit. Again
A chance discovery leaves the Secret Architect debating whether they have a future in architecture
The Secret Architect: What if we boycotted temporary things?
What if we started boycotting temporary things altogether? No more Meanwhile Use gentrification. No more land-banking with ‘pop-ups’ that last for decades, or installations that claim to ‘provoke’