"It's the new English major," designer and Record contributor Guy Horton told Salon.com, referring to an architecture degree's current value in the job market. He was quoted by Scott Timberg in a story about the dire state of the profession in the United States. The article is the latest to cite a study by Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce that showed a 13.9 percent unemployment rate for 22- to 26-year-old architecture graduates, among other doom-and-gloom statistics.
Timberg goes on to profile other designers trying to make heads or tails of the new reality that has befallen architects since the recession. His story is a must-read this week...
