Grand designs? Why many Australian architects say their career makes them unhappy

  • Written by: Naomi Stead, Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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For years there have been suggestions of widespread poor wellbeing among architects. In many ways this is not surprising. It’s well established the profession has a culture of long hours and (often unpaid) overtime, relentless and pressured deadlines, high responsibility and liability and surprisingly low...

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