Work-Life Balance in Architecture: Playing the Game [Hardcover]

Aimed at a workforce whose life and career expectations have changed drastically in recent years,?this book helps readers make informed choices about their careers  enabling students, educators and professionals to prioritise well-being and offer their design and practice voice to enhance a built environment for all.

Part 1. Life in Architecture under Neoliberalism ?1. Work-life Imbalance in Architecture: An Introduction ?2. Celebrity Architect as Homo Oeconomicus? 3. Starting from a Different Position: Architect as Femina Domestica? Part 2. Gameplay Moves: Become an Architect (or not) ?4. The Freedom to Choose to study Architecture or Not? 5. Academic Capitalism and Architectural Education ?6. A Neoliberal Life in Architectural Practice? Part 3. Work-life Balance in Architecture beyond Neoliberalism 7. The Sites of Neoliberal Architectural Labour: Work, Home, Everywhere ?8. 24/7 Architectural Capitalism, No Time, No Sleep? 9. Playing the Game of Life in Architecture beyond Neoliberal Capitalism

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 educlÃh