The Secret Architect

The Incas were not so risk-averse as the architects of today, if the Stirling Prize shortlist is anything to judge by

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 is jobhunting – and finds a practice where staff burnout is baked into the business model

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 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 attends a PCSA meeting in Rio de Janeiro

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 has taken on some freelance work for a trendy ‘digital experience’ group

A chance discovery leaves the Secret Architect debating whether they have a future in architecture

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’