Employment Survey: Is Architecture Working? (UK)

BD’s survey of employment in architecture reveals a generation responding to hard times by going freelance, working part-time or even pursuing new careers outside the profession.
By Andrea Klettner, Building Design
March 7, 2013

Architecture’s real unemployment figures have always been difficult to pin down. The only solid data available is the number claiming jobseeker’s allowance seeking work as an architect. Since 2010 that number has dropped from a high of 1,500 to January’s 770, representing just 2% of the profession. But these relatively low numbers mask a much deeper problem. According to BD’s own survey, nearly 40% of architects in the UK have been made redundant since 2008. More … http://www.bdonline.co.uk/5051394.article?origin=BDbreakingnews.