Zen Architects :: Sustainable and innovative contemporary archit squint/opera +44(0)207 978 7788 - (Build 20100625223402) Andrew Maynard ||| 551Brunswick St! Australian architect Andrew Maynard, co-director of Andrew Maynard Architects, has shared with us his article “Work/life/work balance”, published first on Parlour. “Many women leave the profession due to the difficult combination of poor work cultures, long hours and low pay. But these conditions affect everyone – women and men – as well as the viability of the profession as a whole. Andrew Maynard sets out the issues and challenges the profession to end exploitative and exclusionary working practices.” It is time for architectural work practices to grow up. Epicurus argued that humans needed only three things in life to be happy – friends, freedom and an analyzed life. Continue reading after the break. At 27, like a surprising number of architecture graduates, I cut and ran from commercial architecture. We all imagine working for ourselves. After all, the entire profession cannot relegate itself to working almost exclusively on renos and extensions as I do. We must suffer for our art.
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