06.09.07 Thinking time - If you're over justifying to clients why architects charge more than drafties, a U.S. columnist writes that architects give buildings the thinking time they deserve... "If the tangible result of your efforts will stand for the next 50 or 100 years - perhaps more, who can say? - then a few hours, days or weeks of careful contemplation is nothing in comparison." ... Yes, says the prospective client, but why should I pay you for that? NY HOUSE 31.08.07
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05.02.07 Exxy project homes - Melbourne's project home industry scored some great PR in The Australian recently, with a padded out article letting rich punters know that they can do without architects. Inform Design CEO: "We're responding to clients who wanted to spend a million, but blew their budgets by hundreds of thousands of dollars after going to an architect and then having the project put out to tender." RAIA where are you? THE OZ 21.01.07
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01.12.06 Sosumi - An architecture graduate sued the registration board in Colorado in order to be able to call himself an architect in "noncommercial" situation. He won. ARCHRECORD2 11.06
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19.11.06 crap pay? - The Age has done a salary survey (again) and determined that architects don't get paid much (again). Matt Underhill from Hays reckons the lag between architects' salaries and equivalent building professionals is about $30,000 to $40,000. THE AGE 14.11.06 (scroll to the end)
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14.10.06 Ouch! - The call is out to reevaluate how The Stirling Prize is awarded. Irena Bauman, a Leeds architect working on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, says: quote:
Architects are extraordinary problem solvers, [but] instead of engaging fully with the needs of society we are busy strutting and perpetuating the self-serving image of a profession out of touch with its own potential."
GUARDIAN UK 14.10.06
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03.01.06 Contract Admin - Architect Paul Griffin speculates about why Contract Admin architects are "sullen and unattractive". ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIA 11.05
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Dentists
pull top salaries
And architecture graduates draw the lowest, $28,800, which
is about $5000 below the architects award rate...
(Herald Sun 16.12.03)
Taking
care of business a winner for women
Melbourne Architect Zahava Elenberg collects her Young Businesswoman
of the Year award.
(Age 26.10.03)
Towering
ambition pays off
Victorian Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year: Zahava
Elenberg architect.
(Age 23.09.03)
Deal
on professional indemnity cap
Re: Australia. Indemnity insurance insanity may end soon with
caps on liability.
(OZ 07.08.03)
Architect's
anger over blankety wall
Re: Australia, moral rights law, architect ponders defacement
of award-winner.
(SMH 13.12.01)
Having
designs on the best has its price
Re: Sydney, what an architect can do for you.(SMH 24.11.01)
<<I
would banish all project managers - every one. They don’t
seem to help at all.>>
WILL
ALSOP, PROVOCATEUR, 6/12/01 [AJ PLUS]
DATA COLLECTION 13.05.01 Professor Haarhoff of the University
of Auckland has recently completed a survey for the Architects
Education and Registration Board, gathering statistics relating
to architecture graduates over the last 13 years in New Zealand.
His findings included the following:
*In 1997-9, 39% of graduates were women ( up from 22% in 1987-9).
*10% of registered architects are women.
*Only 36% of graduates from 1987-1997 have registered.
*Of graduates that did register, most did so in the 4th year
out.
*There are 1779 architects registered with the AERB.
*86.2% of AERB registered architects live in NZ, 7.7% live
in Australia, 2.2% are in Asia, and 1.9% are in the UK or
Ireland.
Architext 04/01
Architects
Rush to the Ramparts in a Battle Over Creative Credit
Re: New York, Eli Attia,H.O.K., lack of copyright protection
for U.S. architects.
(NY Times 31.05.01)
requires registration
english
perspective (6/00) - Jonathan Glancey at the guardian
takes the pulse of architects: "they need to get out a bit
more..."
Indemnity
warning irks professionals
Re: PI insurance crisis worsening.
(AGE 20.03.03)
18.02.03
Check tenders for architects here.
Suggestion: put in 'design' as a search keyword. TENDERS
20.10.02
Graham Jahn, the presidentof the RAIA, talks about the state
of architecture in an environment ruled by planners and developers.
PDF
file at RAIA.COM.AU
11.08.02 This link allows you
to look up the weather conditions in almost any city on any
day in the last few years. Handy for time extension claims
perhaps.
www.wunderground.com
26.07.02 Imagine when you eventually
become famous. The publishers come visiting, but discover
that you haven't been taking care of your drawings. No monograph!
Avoid this fate by obeying the NZ National Library's guide
to preserving
architectural drawings
09.08.01 The cost
of good architecture
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