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This is a bit niche but i hope that STW has some useful advice or can point me to someone somewhere that does!.
I have an opportunity to work at a senior level within an international firm of architects based in Sydney (I live there already). I am not an architect but a town planner with nearly 20 years experience in planning and business development. The role is focused on business development and raising the profile of the practice in the Australian and Asia Pac market.
Will not being an architect in an architectural practice be a major issue/hinderance to slotting in and making progress? Are there any other issues i should be aware of as a non architect in architecture.
Any thoughts, tips, other people to contact for advice would be much appreciated
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As long as you understand what it is that they do and want to do then it shouldn't matter too much in that role.
Depends on your abilities as a town planner. My last company had a town planner who dealt all kinds of stuff and got some major schemes through without whom we may have struggled. He did learn autocad though and did a variety of stuff though to earn his keep
easygroove-I am a practicing architect in a design practice in the UK. I have worked for a large international firm of architects who were multi-discipline, they had planners at all levels throughout the corporate structure of the business. I would imagine after 20 years as a planner you have 'opinions' on both architecture and architects!
May be the practice who have offered you the opportunity are looking for you to bring a fresh approach to an aspect of their business or to branch into planning work, be it masterplanning or consultancy. I would be very surprised if they wanted you to practice as an architect, as the two discipline are so far removed.
Hope that helps in some way.