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Resistance Means You're Moving - Architects Instruction 005

Welcome to Architects Instruction issue number 005, a newsletter where I provide actionable ideas to help you build a happy, healthy & well-paid career in Architecture and the Built Environment. Forwarded this email? Join 2,300+ other readers https://chris-simmons.kit.com/06bf321316 Over the last 4 weeks I have been sharing ideas to help you take control of your careers but I keep thinking back to my own experiences where I struggled to do just that, heres one of them. I had just been promoted to Associate and was moved onto a large apartment project. As I joined team had received a bit of a kicking at pre-app, the planning officer had concerns about the facade, the massing and how it responded to the surrounding context. The Director and Project Lead were scrambling to redesign it before the next client meeting. I saw this as my moment. A chance to prove I could operate at this level. So I stayed late, worked up a design response, even photoshopped it onto the current renders to show how it would look. The next morning, I walked over to the Director's desk, image in hand. *"I had an idea for the facade," I said. He glanced up. Looked at the image for maybe three seconds. "Don't worry about that. Have you spoken to the engineer about when they'll issue their latest model?" And just like that, I was put back in my place, being the technician. Not the designer. I slunk back to my desk and spent the rest of the morning, head down, replaying the moment in my head. Had I overstepped? Should I have just stayed in my lane? Later that afternoon, I walked past his desk. He and the Project Lead were sketching together, working up ideas for the meeting. That evening, they pinned up the latest design. ….It looked exactly like mine. No credit. No acknowledgment. Definietly no eye contact. The idea was clearly good, proven by the fact they used it. But I hadn't been strong enough, convincing enough, or strategic enough to make them see me as the person behind it. I'd tried to push out of the role they saw me in, and I'd hit resistance. And because I didn't know how to navigate it, I just went back to being frustrated. Subscribe to keep reading