the aaltos
the eames
p.j. + ritchie
anne tyng + that lou kahn feller
venturi scott brown
future systems
the smithsons
aldo + hannie van eyck
team 4 (fosters + rogers)
portzamparc + jardim neves
+q,
assuming you're talking about the woman taking the man's last name, it would seems to make the struggle for independence and equality that much more difficult when practicing together.
my wife kept her name too...
to add to holz.box off the top of my head -
danelle guthrie + tom buresh
weiss + manfredi ?
el jeffe,
that is not necessarily what I meant. I proposed to my wife that we both could change our last names, at the end we decided that it would be better to use mine because she liked the way it sounded.
Not to take the issue too far off, but I think that there is something to a couple and the resulting nuclear family having a distinct identity.
while bartending in orlando during college i met a couple that created a hybrid of their last names upon marraige. they were not architects.
business aside, in this day and age, i also appreciate the solidarity of a nuclear family sharing a last name (whether that name is the father's, mother's or something else entirely). our family has a tradition (only 2 generations long so far) of using Michael or Michelle for our middle names. I plan on carrying that one forward to a 3rd generation.
although many of the current combos are doubly surnamed, half of holz.box's examples (from the past century) are not.
But there's also the issue of business- if the female half of the partnership has been working under her maiden name for years, developed her own client base and reputation, couldn't that be hurt by the name change? The only reason big companies get away with name changes is because of advertising campaigns, which architects can hardly affort to launch. So to me, a female architect keeping her maiden name, or hyphenating, is a business decision as well as a personal one.
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the aaltos
the eames
p.j. + ritchie
anne tyng + that lou kahn feller
venturi scott brown
future systems
the smithsons
aldo + hannie van eyck
team 4 (fosters + rogers)
portzamparc + jardim neves
this is hardly groundbreaking.
why do most architects not like to have the same last name?
+q,
assuming you're talking about the woman taking the man's last name, it would seems to make the struggle for independence and equality that much more difficult when practicing together.
my wife kept her name too...
to add to holz.box off the top of my head -
danelle guthrie + tom buresh
weiss + manfredi ?
el jeffe,
that is not necessarily what I meant. I proposed to my wife that we both could change our last names, at the end we decided that it would be better to use mine because she liked the way it sounded.
Not to take the issue too far off, but I think that there is something to a couple and the resulting nuclear family having a distinct identity.
while bartending in orlando during college i met a couple that created a hybrid of their last names upon marraige. they were not architects.
business aside, in this day and age, i also appreciate the solidarity of a nuclear family sharing a last name (whether that name is the father's, mother's or something else entirely). our family has a tradition (only 2 generations long so far) of using Michael or Michelle for our middle names. I plan on carrying that one forward to a 3rd generation.
although many of the current combos are doubly surnamed, half of holz.box's examples (from the past century) are not.
But there's also the issue of business- if the female half of the partnership has been working under her maiden name for years, developed her own client base and reputation, couldn't that be hurt by the name change? The only reason big companies get away with name changes is because of advertising campaigns, which architects can hardly affort to launch. So to me, a female architect keeping her maiden name, or hyphenating, is a business decision as well as a personal one.
A female architect keeping her maiden name creates a business statement that shows partners are equal.
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