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Work-Life Balance in Architecture

Playing the Game

Igea Troiani (University of Plymouth, UK)

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English
Routledge
04 March 2024
This book seeks to improve the work lives of architects of diverse demographics who do not fit, or want to replicate, the traditional ‘24/7’ white-male architect lifestyle. Aimed at a workforce whose life and career expectations have changed drastically in recent years, it helps readers of different generations to make informed choices about their careers – enabling students, educators, and professionals to prioritise wellbeing and offer their design and practice voice to enhance a built environment for all.

Work-Life Balance in Architecture examines what it means to play the ‘game of architecture’ – to choose to study and pursue a career in architecture rather than another profession. The book shows the economic, social, and professional structures within which architectural education and practice operate and reveals the impact of a corporate, neoliberal ‘big business’ mentality on wellbeing.

After setting out the context exacerbating work-life imbalance, the book discusses the paths an architect may take – whether this leads to a career in practice or not in architecture at all – and how alternative gameplay moves can advantage or disadvantage those of different gender, class, ethnicity, race, or age at different career stages. It concludes by examining how the places in which an architect works, the time available to work and critiques of perpetual neoliberal economic growth can enhance the lives of all architects today.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   490g
ISBN:   9780815392194
ISBN 10:   0815392192
Pages:   254
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Australian born, Igea Troiani (PhD) is a Professor of Architecture and Head of Division of Architecture at London South Bank University. She has taught or practiced architecture in Australia, Germany, China, and the United Kingdom. As a practice-centred academic, her research over the last 26 years has focused on the production of the architect. She has authored five books, 50 articles and book chapters, and was editor-in-chief of Architecture and Culture from 2012–2022. She is Chair of Women in Architecture (WIA UK) and a mother of two.

Reviews for Work-Life Balance in Architecture: Playing the Game

"""Igea Troiani’s ‘Work-Life Balance in Architecture: Playing the Game’ combines a chastening rehearsal of what is already known —but all too often covered up—about the education and practices of architects, with a wide-ranging exploration of tactics that could change our own practices or those affected by them. Both political and practical, this book makes the tacit ‘rules’ of this game explicit, allowing students, educators and practitioners to play better or differently, and to challenge the structural, institutional frameworks behind these rules."" Stephen Walker, Professor of Architectural Humanities, University of Manchester."


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