For people with careers like ours, we need each other.

I know, but in this job one's always in a hurry.

It's one of the challenges in our profession to try and explain what we do.

Well, to describe our profession otherwise, we are actually concerned with the playful search for beauty.

In our profession, Doctor, we don't always do what we appear to do.

Yeah, that little old buckboard's part burro. Just goes anywhere.

And yet, our career is only one means of expressing our gifts, one means of fulfilling our passions.

I am on this stage because I am a pretty, white woman, and in my industry, we call that a sexy girl.

That is our profession, even historically it's the same, even now we are doing the same.

If we are so good at our craft shouldn't we be able to conceive of an architectural manifestation that slides seamlessly through the project's and the client's constraints?

If we are so good at our craft shouldn't we be able to conceive of an architectural manifestation that slides seamlessly through the project's and the client's constraints?

I believe that setting and attaining agreed standards of excellence in our chosen profession is one of the most effective ways of enhancing the coordination of agencies.

I joined 10 years ago because I wanted female role models, and I was frustrated by the lagging status of women in our profession and what that meant for our image in the media.

These are tiles. The word, playful is a necessary aspect of our work because, actually, one of our problems is that we have to make, produce, lovely things throughout all of life, and this for me is now 75 years.

The word, playful is a necessary aspect of our work because, actually, one of our problems is that we have to make, produce, lovely things throughout all of life, and this for me is now 75 years.