"Shedding the toxic behaviour we have grown accustomed to will be met with resistance"

As campaign group FAF calls on RIBA to address the mistreatment of architectural assistants, architects should focus on changing toxic practice culture, says Sylvia Aehle.I have been tempted to glorify the idea of the architect as a tragic hero, perhaps because I loftily draw parallels between the juxtaposing (and sometimes tragic) traits within me and those of the architect I want to be.
Like me, the architect – especially during those endless, endless, endless years of education –