new york times
Turns out that architects
do live as fabulously — or at least photograph as severely — as those
Banana Republic ads would have you believe. And as Robin Pogrebin reports in today's
Times, they're now taking the word "partner" to mean things that would have totally made McKim, Mead, and White blush:
Like partners in any other architecture firm, married couples design together, make business decisions together, meet with developers as a team and travel to building sites in tandem. Interviews with some couples suggest that it can be tricky. There are the perceptions of the outside world to contend with: the idea that men are muscular masters of tectonics, and women, glorified interior decorators. There are the strains of heavy travel and long days while working and living together, and the potential for design arguments to escalate into marital power struggles.
Muscular masters. Strains.
Design arguments.
Escalation. It only gets hotter after the jump.
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