today i was at a job site meeting for a project i am working on that is under construction. the attendees of the meeting included the extended regular crowd-- that is, in addition to the contractor, owner, and architect, some of the engineers were also present. there were a total of 10 people there, and i was the only female there. when the meeting ended, i waited for my project manager, also an architect, to finish a conversation with someone before walking together over to the site. i exited the main meeting room and waited in a large space used for maintenance at the golf club. a guy working on a machine to rake the sand traps (yes, they have machines to rake sand traps) looks at me and engages in the following conversation:
guy: hi!me: hi.guy: you must be the interior decorator.me: no, i'm an architect.guy: [in a condescending tone] ooooooooooh, i thought i already met the architect.he was obviously trying to cover up the fact that he assumed that because i am a female, i
must be the interior decorator. not even designer, mind you, but decorator.
at this point i decided i'd rather wait outside in the 90+ degree weather than hang out with him. is that wrong? and is it SO hard to believe i'm an architct? i think not.
anyway, check out how cool this orange tile looks! yay for bathrooms! somehow i can't figure out right now how to be able to make this picture bigger... the tiles are only 3/4" x 3/4"! what a mosaic!
4 comments:
That's funny, because as one of the few females in construction around here, I always get asked if I'm the architect. :)
That's bs. I've had the same assumption made about me at job sites too. Then I put a firm sticker on my hard hat and they started recognizing me :)
Shana, I was wondering if you could help me pick out some pillows for my guest room sometime, got a minute?
who are you, OneArchitect?
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