ABSTRACT

Adapt As An Architect: A Mid-Career Companion is the only book that helps design professionals to navigate the vast heart of the architect’s journey. It serves as a roadmap: a career GPS that provides options for architects getting from where they are today to where they really want to be. The focus of this optimistic, engaging book is on continued relevance, professional engagement, perseverance, and career longevity. It argues that mid-career is the lynchpin of the architect’s career, and provides the guidance and support that practices themselves are missing for emerging professionals, who are often left to their own devices to find their way as they approach the middle of their career. This book means architects don’t need to navigate these years on their own.

chapter |15 pages

Prologue: Adapt

part |90 pages

Part I

chapter 1|18 pages

Relate

chapter 2|18 pages

Remain

Staying can be difficult, filled with challenges and unexpected obstacles.

chapter 3|16 pages

Rebound

Cope with, adapt to and recover from whatever life throws your way.

chapter 4|18 pages

Flourish

Show up to your work and be willing to let it change you.

chapter 5|19 pages

Shift

Take the path less travelled, differentiate yourself.

part |87 pages

Part II

chapter 6|17 pages

Pivot

Not all pivots occur in mid-career, but many mid-career architects do what they do today as a result of an earlier career pivot.

chapter 7|16 pages

Reinvent

Pull away from the crowd, reinvent yourself.

chapter 8|20 pages

Rewire

Mid-career architects: the bridge between generations

chapter 9|18 pages

Reinforce

Staff of any gender will not stay for long in a company that adversely affects their work-life balance.

chapter 10|15 pages

Reintegrate

Wisdom more than makes up for decrease in speed.