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For What It’s Worth: Unpaid Overtime Among Future Architects

2021-04-28T16:22:00-04:00

Over recent months, a conversation about unpaid overtime has risen to the top of the United Kingdom’s architectural discourse, spurred by lobbying from the Future Architects Front. We took a closer look at how the latest debate began, what it uncovered about the prevalence of unpaid overtime in architecture, and what it means for the future of unpaid overtime in the UK and abroad.

Meet Aleph Zero, the Young Architects Behind This Year's Best New Building

2018-11-21T09:05:00-05:00

Children Village, a boarding school for disadvantaged children in rural Brazil, has been crowned as the world's best new building of the year. Designed by the firm Aleph Zero in collaboration with Rosenbaum, the groundbreaking project has won the Royal Institute of British Architects' prestigious International Prize, a biennial award recognizing a new building from around the world that exemplifies design excellence, architectural ambition and delivers meaningful social impact.

#EthelDay: celebrating the contributions made by woman to the field of architecture

2017-07-05T15:15:00-04:00

In 1898, Ethel Charles became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and today RIBA is celebrating the trailblazer with a social media campaign marked by the hashtag #Ethelday.