Displaced by the Economy, Architects Balance Design and the Bottom Line
With architects clients’ money frozen by sluggish credit markets, double-digit deceases in architecture firm unemployment, and nonresidential construction activity projected to decrease by 12 percent next year alone, the professional dissonance between architects’ roles as creative designers and market-driven corporate managers is heightening every day. Recent graduates nursed by the academy’s aspirations of design supremacy who have been struggling to find work and experienced architects who have been laid off from design firms are all finding that in a sinking design and construction economy, maintaining a career means creating your own entrepreneurial opportunities more so than designing other’s visions. 
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The Economy • Financial Services • R&D Trend
The Economy: Housing supplies are creeping lower in this hobbled recovery.
In Congress: A possible extension of COBRA benefits for long-term unemployed.
Climate Change: India and China won’t budge on CO2 emissions before the U.S.
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