We help architects and designers clarify their trajectory, articulate their value, and connect with aligned work. Employers and collaborators work with us for signal, not noise, in talent and storytelling.
Erin Pellegrino and Jake Rudin
We expected big-firm energy after school. Instead, we kept seeing how design training quietly prepared people for problem framing, visual communication, and delivery far outside a traditional studio.
Out of Architecture is the career advisory and resource network we wished existed: candid, practical, and grounded in practice. We work with individuals exploring their next chapter and with teams who need that perspective in hiring and narrative, including people leaving architecture and imagining life outside architecture.
For employers and collaborators, that often shows up as systems thinking, visual clarity, and stamina on complex programs. For practitioners, it is permission to claim those strengths in interviews, portfolios, and negotiations.
Conversations and long-form listening live in our podcast library on Press. Reading, features, and book context sit alongside them in the book and editorial index. Stories from architects are shared on The Collective.
Recent features and conversations, collected on Press so you can read or listen in one place.
In this episode, Jake and Erin discuss the disconnect between architecture education and the profession, how our skills and training can be invaluable to many different roles in different industries, and how you can create and design an architecture career that fits you.
The OOA book, "Out of Architecture: The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice", was featured in Architect Newspaper's Holiday Book Gift Guide for 2022.
This is the second round with Erin Pellegrino and Jake Rudin, two Harvard graduates who have started a consulting company called Out of Architecture. Since last time we have talked they have now written also a book titled the same way. In this one hour conversation we have discussed how did they write, why did they write it and who is this for? Enjoy the conversation and you can watch here the round one!
Architects, we need to talk. We need to talk about being overworked, underpaid and undervalued. We need to talk about how sacrificing your health, sanity and relationships at the altar of architecture and for the glory of good design is not okay. Burnout is like a dormant virus. It incubates in architecture school, spreads through architecture companies and slowly infects your entire life.
Whether you are hiring, exploring a transition, or building an internal narrative for design talent, you can start on the main site or keep up with what we publish.
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