Are you ready to take your career in Architecture to the next level?
Meet your coach.
Stephen Drew
Founder of the Architecture Social
Stephen is the Founder of the Architecture Social, a member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architect’s) Future Architects and Education Development Groups, an ambassador for the Architect’s Benevolent Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He is also a former elected Council Member of the RIBA, Visiting Critic and Teaching Assistant of Manchester School of Architecture, and professional mentor for Postgraduate Architecture students at the University of Westminster.
Previously he worked in the Architecture industry at EPR Architects for three years after completing a degree and diploma in Architecture at the University of Westminster and Manchester School of Architecture.
In 2014, Stephen left practising Architecture to pursue a career in recruitment where he worked alongside industry-leading Architecture Practices.
In 2021, Stephen joined Ackroyd Lowrie, an ambitious Architecture Practice as their Head of Talent. He was responsible for internal recruitment and retaining existing staff, alongside building up his own business known as the Architecture Social.
When competing for a dream job, Stephen is your unfair advantage.
When you work with an expert coach, you get access to their guidance, knowledge and expertise, instead of spending valuable time figuring it out yourself. This saves you a lot of time, energy and money.
Stephen recently works In-House in an Architecture Practice in charge of recruitment as Head of Talent, he has worked also in the Architecture Industry as a Part II Architecture Assistant and successfully recruited for the world’s leading architecture practices for 7 years.
He has seen every side of the recruitment process, from being the hiring manager, the recruiter as well as the job seeker in Architecture. This means that Stephen knows what it takes to be noticed above others, make a positive impression, and accelerate your career.
In tailored coaching sessions based on your career, we can focus on how to find the right job, refine your cv, portfolio, interview preparations, salary negotiations, handling offers and rejection, resigning on good terms, and much more.
After our coaching sessions, you will be sent a video recording and audio transcription for you to review afterward as well as access to the private coach’s cohort group on the Architecture Social.
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Stephen worked in the Architecture Industry at:
Cullinan Studio
EPR Architects
Swansea City Council
He has worked in the recruitment industry as:
Head of Architecture at Macdonald & Company
Recruitment Director at Shape Careers
Recruitment Consultant at Bespoke Careers
Companies that Stephen has a track record of recruiting for:
3D Reid
3S Architects
Ackroyd Lowrie
Acme Architects
Adamson Associates
AKTII
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)
Allied London
Allies and Morrison
Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A)
Amos and Amos
ARC MC
Arney Fender Katsalidis (AFK) Studios
Arup Associates
Assael Architecture
Aukett Swankee
Autor Architecture
Avanti Architects
AWW
BAM Construction
Barking Riverside
Barton Willmore
Benoy
Berkeley Homes
Bimorph
Bond Bryan
Boundary Space
Brewer Smith Brewer Gulf (BSBG)
Broadway Malyan
Brooker Flynn Architects
Brooks Murray Architects
Buro Happold
Burwell Architects
CallisonRTKL
Capita Architecture
Carless & Adams
Chapman Taylor
Charlton Brown.
Chetwood Architects
Child Graddon Lewis
Chris Bandford Associates
Collado Collins
Corgan
Costain
Cox Architects
Darnton B3
David Chipperfield Architects Ltd
David Collins Studios
Designtech.io
Dexter Moren
DGA Architects
DLA Architecture
DSDHA
Dublanc Studio
Duggan Morris Architects
ECE Architecture
ECE Projekt management Limited
EPR Architects
ESA Architecture
Excitech
Fairhurst Design Group
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Flanagan Lawrence
Fletcher Priest Architects
Foster + Partners
Frame Property
GAA Design
Gensler
Gillespies
GL Hearn
Glenn Howells Architects
GliderBIM
GPAD
Grimshaw Architects
Hale Brown Architects
Hassell
Hawkins Brown
HDR
Heatherwick Studio
HKS Architects
HLM
HOK
Holt Architecture
Hopkins Architects Partnership
HTA Design
Hutchinson & Partners
Ideal Modular Homes
Jefferson Sheard Architects (JSA)
John McAslan and Partners
John Simpson & Partners
JTP (John Thompson and Partners)
Karakusevic Carson Architects
KSR Architects
KSS Group
LabTech
Lawson Robb
LEEP Architects
Leonard Design Architects
Levitt Bernstein Architects
Maccreanor Lavington
Mackay and Partners LLP
Makower Architects
Marchese Partners
McBains
Microdesk
Moreno:Masey
Morey Smith
Mossessian
MSMR
Owen Architects
Palladian
Pascall & Watson
Patel Taylor
PDP
Perkins + Will
Pilbrow & Partners
PM Devereux Architects
Pocket Living
POD Architects
Populous
PRP Architects
Purcell
Reardon Smith
Rodic Davidson Architects
Ryder Architecture
Sheehan Nagle Hartray
Sheppard Robson
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)
SMC Design
SPAR
SPPARC
Sprunt
Stanhope Gate Architecture
Stanton Williams
Stitch
Studio Egret West
Studio Indigo
Studio Partington
Sybarite Architects
Tate Hindle
Farrells
The Manser Practice Architects
Tophat
Turkington Martin
Veretec
WATG
Woods Baggot
Zaha Hadid
You are in safe hands. We are a member of the global recruitment trade body, Apsco.
The Architecture Social is a member of APSCo (The Association of Professional Staffing Companies) which is the only membership body dedicated to representing excellence in the professional recruitment industry.
The APSCo badge is recognised by candidates and employers as the differentiating quality mark in professional talent acquisition.
As an APSCo member, we are also required to complete a regular member compliance assessment which enables us to demonstrate that not only do we understand our legal and regulatory obligations, but also that we are working to best practice recruitment standards.
