Parlour conversations – speculative, exploratory, sometimes provocative pieces by a wide range of participants. Anecdote and attitude, reflection and opinion. If you would like to contribute a piece please contact us.
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Successes, strategies and struggles
Wendy Bertrand reflects on forty years of the Organization of Women Architects and Design Professionals.
The boys’ club
Bronwyn Marshall reflects on the effect of the boys' club in architectural culture and workplaces.
Where to next?
What is an architectural career anyway? Sara Stace describes the twists and turns she has taken so far.
The graduate pay gap – new figures
Shelley Penn, National President of the Australian Institute of Architects, updates the figures for the architecture graduate pay gap.
Against work-life balance
Amanda Kolson Hurley argues that it is time to talk bluntly about women and money.
Where do all the women go? I know!
Reflecting on her own recent experience of redundancy, one architect is sadly no longer surprised that there are so few registered woman architects.
Building community
"Get it right for women, and you get it right for everyone." Lee Hillam asks how can women architects can contribute to the low cost housing debate in Australia?
Unearthing a female perspective
How do our workplaces affect our aesthetics? Architect and blogger, Ella Leoncio, reflects on the importance of the female perspective in the design of our built environment.
Angie the architect meets Rosie the riveter
Are unlicensed women working in architecture the 'expendable proletariat'? Gill Matthewson looks at the lastest American Institute of Architects survey of “firm characteristics”.
Architecture + motherhood
Samara Greenwood tells her story of negotiating architecture and motherhood so far – interspersed with thoughts from friends and colleagues.
The questions to ask
A career does not make itself – it requires planning, political nous, ambition and perseverance. Ann Lau outlines the things graduates need to consider.
Shifting the discourse
Tania Davidge asks how might we subvert, challenge or rethink elements of architecture culture that disadvantage women and diversity.
Making the future
The future for women in architecture is inextricable from the future of the profession as a whole. Annabel Lahz considers a profession in the midst of change.
Designing Parlour
Catherine Griffiths, of Studio Catherine Griffiths, designed the Parlour identity design and typography. She describes the ideas explored.
