Architecture's Afterlife

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Architecture’s Afterlife is the first book to examine the sectors into which architecture graduates migrate, and to identify the transferable skills that are learned, but not always taught, in their degree programmes, and that prove most useful in their new careers.

Almost 40% of architecture graduates choose not to practise as architects. Instead, by ‘leaving’ their chosen profession, this surprisingly large but vastly overlooked cohort are making significant contributions to a wide range of other sectors, from politics to videogame design, demonstrating that architectural training can be a pathway to roles, and even leadership opportunities, across a variety of other professions.

Architecture’s Afterlife is the first book to examine the sectors into which these graduates migrate, and to identify the transferable skills that are learned, but not always taught, in their degree programmes, and that prove most useful in their new careers.

The book – a result of a three-year pan-European study funded by Erasmus+ – provides a roadmap for increasing graduate employment, addressing skills shortages across all sectors and adapting curricula to changing professional landscapes. It is therefore essential reading for all those responsible for curriculum design and delivery in architecture and other disciplines, including deans, professors, postgraduate researchers and policy makers, as well as students and professionals seeking to expand their career prospects.

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PART 1: CONTEXT, TERMINOLOGIES & METHODOLOGIES 1. Introduction 2. What is Architecture? A Contested History of the Discipline and its Embedded Meanings 3. Researching Architecture’s Afterlife: A Methodological Framework PART 2: ARCHITECTURE & IDENTITY 4. The Concerning Characteristics of the Transposable Architectural Mindset 5. Architecture as ‘Modus Operandi’: Educating for a Cross-boundary Approach 6. Architectural Education Provides Hard/Soft Competences 7. From Blurred Limits of Architecture to New Practices PART THREE: ARCHITECTURE & WORK 8. Architecture as a Professional Title 9. On Collective Work and Individual Responsibilities 10. Pervasiveness of Architecture and Work-Life Balance PART 4: CONCLUSIONS 11. Skills that are Learned but not Taught and their Impact on Multi-Sector Transversality Within the Gig Economy 12. Opportunities in Mismatches Between Architectural Education and Professional Outcomes 13. Propositions for Pedagogy, Policy and the Profession 14. The Research’s Afterlife