Overcoming the Struggles in the Career / Dinorah Martinez Schulte

Today we have a very special guest, someone that we have seen grow in their professional career and personal life through our constant contact in social media, Dinorah Martinez Schulte. She is a Mexican architect that graduated from la Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with a specialization in Creative Design Code from CENTRO.

She has worked with amazing firms like arquitectura 911, Sordo Madaleno, MAD Architects in China, Rojkind Arquitectos, and 3ARCH. We contacted her because she has done many conferences which she titles “The Utopian Architect” and we wanted to know what it was all about. In her talk, she refers to the many struggles she had finding herself within the profession. Realizing that architecture is NOT only design and construction work, but also entails other things such as marketing, editorial publishing, photography, and many more. She talks about how trying to push herself to be the best left her broken and how she realized that she could not compete with others, and she needed to slow down and take in her circumstances. She gave herself a break from work and studying for a bit, and has found herself again by doing inner work and sharing her personal experience in the design field with students.