This is the season 3 trailer for the ground breaking podcast: THE BROKE ARCHITECT.

The first episode will kick off with a special guest and we will discuss the LIES we are told and believe in the Profession ARCHITECTURE. You don't want to miss this episode!!!

Quoted in the Architects Journal, Building Design, GB News and in RIBA speeches this is the podcast that aims to uncover the truth, change the profession and find solutions to a BROKE Profession.

Should you want to feature on the show or sponsor the show please contact me at www.globalarchitectalliance.com

Get ready for the hardest hitting season yet!

I’ve started a petition!
In the last 3 years the UK's ARB have increased our architect registration fees by a whopping 67% 😳
In 2021 the fee was £119 and in December 2023 you will be required to pay £199.
At this rate it won’t be long before ARB catchup to RIBA membership levels.
That’s an extra £3.3 million in fees over 3 years! I’m not seeing any of that money going to look after “protection of title” or maybe I’m wrong?

ARB has also announced new fees for schools of architecture for accreditation of courses. Previously there was no fee charged. ARBs' role in monitoring professional standards was seen as part of what the registration fee covered. Now they are asking institutions to pay £9,200 per year from January 2024.

In addition, there are charges for approving course changes at a couple of thousand per course. This is an immediate annual addition to ARB's coffers of about £600,000. There has been no consultation about this.

One wonders what these fees and the registration fees (which must amount to about £9 million) is being spent on.
I will demand a halt to any further increase in fees but what else do you want me to highlight that ARB are not doing right and are they overstepping as a regulator into membership issues?

This is Part 2 of a special BONUS Episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

This show is brought to you by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Global Architect Alliance (GAA)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 

James and Karla have a new book out on the subject of independent shops in NYC. This book is arranged into five main chapters corresponding to the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island and has maps of each borough as well as text describing each borough and neighbourhood. 

James and Karla, live and breathe New York City life and live in the East Village of Manhattan. As well as being published authors they have the most amazing YouTube channel where they livestream from the streets of Manhattan with their beautiful dog Hudson by their side. 

Sadly, however, many of these stores and disappearing due to the high rents. Often when the stores close the wonderful signs and in some cases, neon signs are removed and then you have lost a whole night scene of a street or place. 

Please REMEMBER the Podcast is supporting the important work of The Architects Benevolent Society, which was founded in 1850 and exists to support the architectural community and their families and can help architects in a range of ways during their working life, or once they have retired. https://www.absnet.org.uk/get-help/ 

FUNDRAISER APPEAL: Please donate to the Broke Architect Podcasts JustGiving page: https://tinyurl.com/637k88se

This is Part 1 of a special BONUS Episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

This show is brought to you by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Global Architect Alliance (GAA)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 

James and Karla have a new book out on the subject of independent shops in NYC. This book is arranged into five main chapters corresponding to the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island and has maps of each borough as well as text describing each borough and neighbourhood. 

James and Karla, live and breathe New York City life and live in the East Village of Manhattan. As well as being published authors they have the most amazing YouTube channel where they livestream from the streets of Manhattan with their beautiful dog Hudson by their side. 

Sadly, however, many of these stores and disappearing due to the high rents. Often when the stores close the wonderful signs and in some cases, neon signs are removed and then you have lost a whole night scene of a street or place. 

Please REMEMBER the Podcast is supporting the important work of The Architects Benevolent Society, which was founded in 1850 and exists to support the architectural community and their families and can help architects in a range of ways during their working life, or once they have retired. https://www.absnet.org.uk/get-help/ 

FUNDRAISER APPEAL: Please donate to the Broke Architect Podcasts JustGiving page: https://tinyurl.com/637k88se

This is the twenty-first episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast! This show is brought to you by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Global Architect Alliance (GAA)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 

I have with me today ⁠Luke Roberts who is an architectural designer, who has a practice called Storyboard Design. He set up Storyboard Design in 2022 because he is passionate about sustainable design and wanted to help homeowners and self-builders do design better homes for their well-being and for the planet. 

In this episode, we talk about dyslexia and how to navigate your way through University. We hear Luke's horrific stories of his time in practice both as a Part 1 and Part 2 architectural assistant. We cover bullying, low pay, unpaid overtime, childcare issues relating to flexible working post-COVID and struggles with mental health and anxiety.

Links to Storyboard design are: https://storyboard-design.co.uk/

Please REMEMBER the Podcast is supporting the important work of The Architects Benevolent Society, which was founded in 1850 and exists to support the architectural community and their families and can help architects in a range of ways during their working life, or once they have retired. https://www.absnet.org.uk/get-help/ 

FUNDRAISER APPEAL: Please donate to the Broke Architect Podcasts JustGiving page: https://tinyurl.com/637k88se

This is the twentieth episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

I have with me today ⁠Victoria Farrow who is an architect, associate professor and subject lead in architecture for parts 1, 2 and 3 in architecture at the Leicester School of Architecture, De Monfort University. Before this, Victoria was an associate professor and course leader for BA architecture and first-year lead at Birmingham City University (BCU) for almost 10 years.

Victoria is an activist, compassionate educator and passionate about making positive change. She is happy to grit her teeth to get what needs to be done done, maybe it’s because she is from Hull!”

In this episode, we talk about the gap between education and practice. We also discuss the human side of an educator in 2023 and the demands of this role. We delve into the dreaded CRIT and discuss much more besides.

Please REMEMBER the Podcast is supporting the important work of The Architects Benevolent Society, which was founded in 1850 and exists to support the architectural community and their families and can help architects in a range of ways during their working life, or once they have retired. https://www.absnet.org.uk/get-help/ 

FUNDRAISER APPEAL: Please donate to the Broke Architect Podcasts JustGiving page: https://tinyurl.com/637k88se

This is the ninetieth episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

I have with me today Oliver Lowrie of Ackroyd Lowry Architects, located in London UK. As well as being a business owner with Jon Ackroyd 

Oliver hosts a podcast, URBAN FORECAST which talks to the people defining the future of our cities. In the podcast he Discusses peoples background, what drives them and the insights and what they have learned along the way. This is a show for investors, developers, planners, consultants and anyone who is interested in how we will work, live and play in the cities of the future and what that means for the property market today. I have no idea why I am on the show but we are here!

This show is a Battle Royale where Oliver interviews me and I interview him it’s The Broke Architect vs Urban Forecast. We have an honest and frank conversation, think Daily Mail against the Telegraph. We discuss thoughts on the profession including education, overtime, the RIBA, working for free and fee bidding. We talk about solutions and ask why many architects are leaving London.

WARNING - EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ALERT - This is the eighteenth episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

This show is brought to you by the ⁠Global Architect Alliance (GAA)⁠. In this episode, we talk with ⁠Erin Pellegrino.

Erin is a strategist, designer and registered architect with a decade of experience in the fields of design, business development and creative consulting. She currently works as the founder and principal of Matter, a design firm that solves problems that span from brand and digital experiences to the built environment. She is also the co-founder of Out of Architecture, a career consulting firm that helps designers explore non-traditional methods of practice.
Erin has taught widely in architecture and design fields at universities including Harvard, Cornell, Parsons, The City University of New York and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She holds an M.Arch II from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and her MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology. She has also worked for ⁠Tod Williams and Billie Tsien⁠ and ⁠Studio Gang⁠.

Erin then began "Out Of Architecture" with Jake Rudin which is a Career consulting firm that helps you leverage the full value of your design education, in any field. They have also written a book, published by Routledge and have a podcast called Tangents. In this episode, we explore the reasons you might want to consider an alternative career using the skills that that architecture degree taught you and how you would go about doing this.

In this episode, she calls out the bullshxt in architecture. We discuss unpaid internships at Starchitect firms, the cost of education, how she manages debt, pay, value, lack of diversity and building successful businesses.

Erin's socials:

LinkedIn Profile (⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-pellegrino/)

Practice: https://www.studio-matter.com

Out of Architecture Website (⁠www.outofarchitecture.com⁠)

Out of Architecture Instagram (⁠www.instagram.com/outofarchitecture⁠)

Out of Architecture LinkedIn (⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/out-of-architecture/⁠)

Out of Architecture ⁠Patreon

This is the seventieth episode of Season 2 of The Broke Architect Podcast!

Practice: https://k2architects.co.uk/