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11 Career Lessons From One Of Australia’s Leading Architects, Kerstin Thompson
Few Australian architects have achieved the same career success as Kerstin Thompson. Since founding her practice in 1994, the architect has gone on to design numerous acclaimed buildings and houses, two of which have been awarded the prestigious Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture, presented by the National Australian Institute of Architects.
Working in an industry dominated by men comes with its own set of challenges, many of which Kerstin referred to in a 2013 talk at Diverse Practice Symposium at Victoria University of Wellington.
Eleven years later, these lessons still stand, forming part of the newly-released book Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing People & Place.
Be competent
The best antidote to any potential critic is to be good at what you do, whatever aspect of practice that may be.
You don’t have to be exceptional but being competent is pretty handy and hard