So I’ve been on the job market since February; in that time, I’ve applied for over 175 different positions. Some of these have been outside of the world of architecture, while most have been with architecture practices. I can see the writing on the wall, the architecture industry is changing and until it finds its new face there are not going to be many new positions out there working for other people. This is one of the reasons I’ve started my own residential design firm, studioSML, with a good friend of mine. On one hand we have the dream of working for ourselves, but on the other we are trying to be realists and understand that it is very likely that we will not bring in enough money to be self sufficient for years. This means that we both need full time positions elsewhere, and not just temporary ones. We are looking for long term (a number of years) positions that will allow us the ability to work on our own projects while still paying the rent/mortgage. In my mind, the best way to accomplish this is to find jobs outside of architecture, and for me that means looking to [...]
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AnArchitecture has a link to an article on 37signals about the above graphic from Colliers International which imagines real estate space as a commercial stock-like ticker. To me this image is very reminiscent of Maxis’ Simtower and the way metrics of occupied and unoccupied spaces were shown.