The combined house and studio offers architects several advantages. Like marrying a business partner, it allows a committed architect to streamline their life, minimising time spent attending to domestic matters that could be more productively (and perhaps pleasurably) spent in the studio. And, in recent years, it has often become a vital part of an architect's business model, where the act of turning developer provides both office and dwellings for the practice to use but also to rent out, helping take the edge off the increasingly miserable economics of trying to create quality architecture day by day.
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