“…1 Besides classical studies on architectural work (for example, Blau 1984) and professional culture in architecture (for example, Cuff 1991), a specific line of research highlights gender issues in architecture (cf. Adams, Tancred 2000;Fowler, Wilson 2012;Heynen 2012;Sang et al 2014;Stead 2018). 2 This third model is an amalgamation of several approaches: (i) Fournier's (1999) andEvett's (2013) understandings of the "discourse of professionalism" as a "disciplinary mechanism", addressed by the third proposition; (ii) the concept of new, "hybrid", or "corporate" roles of professionals in organisations, described by Noordegraaf (2007) and Muzio et al (2011), as in the second proposition; (iii) and Abbott's (2005) concept of "linked ecologies", as in the first proposition.…”