Posts Tagged ‘women in architecture’

August 03, 2015

An Entreaty to Young Women in Architecture

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet Architecture is all about art and beauty and feeling good inside a building right? Wrong. Architecture is also all about codes and actual wood framing sizes vs nominal and how are you going to make sure that skylight won’t leak. Recently, I started working for a firm called Communitecture as a project manager/project architect. We are so busy that we are looking for another person who can lead projects by herself as well. We’ve talked with quite a few people and looked at quite a few resumes. What has become apparent in our search is that there are plenty…

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June 23, 2010

Women in Architecture – the Big Gap

by: Taz Loomans

Tweet Recently I was approached by a colleague looking to build some LEED homes to be considered for the role of architect.  As I’m busy with other projects right now, I had to decline and he asked me if I could recommend any other women architects. I’m sad to say I was stumped!  Many of the women architects I know are working for large or medium-sized firms and wouldn’t have time to work on this.  A more appropriate fit would be a person that has her own firm and could take this project on for herself.  There are quite a…

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