Oana Bogdan is the founder of Brussels-based practice &bogdan (founded 2007). In 2016, she was Secretary of State for cultural heritage in the Romanian Government (her country of origin) and has also been involved in many industry organisations and businesses in addition to her own practice, too numerous to list them all here.In her practice she promotes cooperation and operates from the “follow me I’m right behind you” type of leadership and is on a mission to tackle the challenges of the architectural profession in the 21st century, especially in the belgian context, but many of these lessons apply to architecture in other locales, which often suffer from the same problems.

In this episode, we are discussing what Oana calls "the cris of the architectural profession", as we connected over a shared desire to see some of the challenges that architects face in many jurisdictions tackled and solved once and for all.

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