Heading The ‘Starchitect’ An optimistic, forward thinking practice delivering cutting edge innovation, research and design for the built environment is every young Architect’s dream goal. A massive congratulations is in order for achieving an early goal and ambition of reaching the elite straight out of Architecture school, it’s all plain sailing from here, right? Wrong. Although it is very possible for the upper percentile of students to join a Star Architects practice and thrive in an office of innovation, involving themselves in high profile projects and making an early name for themselves. You, unfortunately, aren’t Bjark Ingles and didn’t get the chance to work under Rem Koolhaas. Unfortunately, you have joined a large corporation and found yourself lost in translation as the office ‘CAD Monkey’ [Fig.10], stuck in the “epoch of technology” (Hossain, 2019)
The CAD Monkey: “Somebody who has gone through years of difficult and strenuous education in architecture, only to wind up with a mindless and repetitive job where they do one task on a computer drafting programme over and over again” Want to try again? [Fig.10] The CAD Monkey
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