home as project house

Said friend Florence (name has been changed) is a business professional and still recent graduate who is building a home in a newly developed estate by Stocklands, south of the river.  The particulars are; the home is a land and house package by Ideal Homes, block is 320m2 and house is 136m2 (total area of 182m2 with covered open spaces; garage and alfresco).  The home is a standard design for a 280m2 block and therefore, Florence has more garden than would be usual.  The total package has cost approximately $370,000 (inclusive of home, land and design variations).

I have asked Florence to share some insights into the process and reflect on her experiences on the murky topic of; building with a project home company.

[Image Google Maps of Perth Suburbia]

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AJH: Thesis in its current form

As I prepare my Dissertation Preparation, Research Context Assignment (3), it seemed like a good idea to actually post up how the Thesis process is going this semester and reflect on where am I...

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Surveys

Well just wanted to post an idea I had. After hearing and knowing of graduates who either became disenfranchised with practising architecture or realised it wasn't the best way for them to contribute to architecture or maybe leading to different career paths, I wondered if any comprehensive survey has been done on Architecture graduates.

A possible survey could focus on the paths of graduates taken at 1-2 years after graduation and 3-5 years:

-what current field employed in (practising architecture, architecture related, design related, non related, other (travel, further study)

-what form (FT, PT, casual or contract, self employed).

-Happiness in employment; on work colleagues (support and direction), type of work, etc

- Income (per annum amount or hourly rate)

Of course all done anonymous.

Normally surveys are done to research a point, hmmmm. I think some aspects I would be interested in would be the retention rate in architecture after graduating and whether private practice is supporting graduates adequately?

So thoughts...

Inspired by what Glenn Murcutt said at Re:Hab (very much paraphrasing); that he teaches to contribute to the profession as he doesn't employ others in his practice.

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