Breaking Barriers.

Building Futures.

What is Build The Way?

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Build The Way is a nine month entry-level architecture traineeship providing an alternative and accessible route into a career designing and making buildings, spaces, cities, and communities.

Trainees are paid the London Living Wage for a 32- hour week and spend an additional day each week developing professional practice skills while completing an EPQ at the London School of Architecture.

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Group of diverse adults standing around a table in a bright, spacious room with large windows, engaging in a discussion while holding papers and a tablet. Children are seated in the background, some wearing yellow vests.
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Who is it for?

We offer traineeship placements for young Londoners aged 18-25 at a range of our partner architecture practices across London.

No prior experience is required. We look for applicants with a genuine passion for design and cities.

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Who do we work with?

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Build The Way is made up of several organisations that have come together with the shared view that architecture and the built environment needs to be more equitable and diverse.

The trainees are employed by a collective of London-based SME practices with staff numbers under 50. These organisations are powerful drivers in levelling up young talent yet many face barriers when hiring entry-level positions due to time, resource, and cost pressures.

Our Impact

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Over the past three months, the trainees have already spent over 350 hours in practice.

During this time, they have spent an additional 100 hours on their independent design brief, supported by practice mentors with an additional 30 hours of mentoring from the Build The Way team and their practice mentors.

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Our Trainees

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"I had a wonderful experience with BTW. I think it taught me more than what university would have during that point in time. I also believe that more young people considering going into architecture should take time and give more consideration to what the reality of the architecture world really is, which BTW fully provides."

Collaborate with us

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We’re always open to collaborating with organisations and initiatives in the built environment who share our values and are keen to support Build The Way.

If you would like to be a partner practice, sponsor or are from a local authority, developer or private funder, get in touch with our team.

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