HR for Creative Companies

01 The Profession

THE PROFESSION

These observations are the result of more than twenty-five years of working with, and learning to understand, admire and respect architects.

Architecture as a profession seems always to have been dogged by contradictions. It is a profession, but in comparison with others, is sometimes less well paid and often doesn’t have the respect it deserves. In general, architects are highly intelligent and well educated; they love debate and sometimes love that debate as much or more than its purpose. In fact, architecture can be seen as a calling rather than a profession. At least, that may be one reason for a lack of commercial awareness. How many project budgets suffer from the hours of over- and re-design? And there ...