ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss a working relationship there can be no generalising since they believe that every couple or group of people will have a wholly different nexus of relationships and motivations. It may be that only personal stories will allow us to examine the impact of gender in architecture, which might be pictured as an overlay or a series of strands woven into the daily tussles of collaboration. Architecture is hard; the stress is constant; the challenge is always changing; the failures are obvious, and success hangs by the merest thread. Drawing is also something that we can, as architects, do semi-spontaneously, so it is an easy way to describe and share a thought – often a lot easier than trying to articulate a thought verbally. However, architect are presently living in a period of discontinuity: architectural representation is jumpy and split between different digital models and rendering systems.
