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Conversion Rates for a Small Firm Architect

EntreArchitect

Our best year, in terms of converting Prospects to Projects was 2004. I know this as fact, because I track my firm’s Prospect to Project Ratio. Every year since Annmarie and I launched the firm in 1999, we’ve had a full workload. Our best conversion years have been the pre-Great Recession years of 2002 and 2004.

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The A+List: Architizer’s Top Architecture and Design Firms to Watch in 2024

Architizer

In recognition of this fact, Architizer is delighted to present the much-anticipated fifth edition of the coveted A+List , an annual rundown of every firm that scooped an A+Award and A+Firm Award in the previous season. We’ve also curated a selection of featured firms, providing some extra background on their A+Award triumphs.

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Designed Transition

Landscape Architecture Magazine

If there were good, recent books on passing a design firm’s ownership from founders to successors (there aren’t), it sounds as if Cheryl Barton, FASLA, and Kate Orff, FASLA, would have had little use for them. Early in her career, she worked at the Office of Dan Kiley and later was a principal at EDAW before that firm became a part of AECOM.

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The Architecture of Motherhood

EntreArchitect

1 Yet, the percentage of women who obtained their architect license, achieve upper management positions, become partners and own architectural firms have not increased as men’s percentages have. Gloria is the founder and CEO of Glow Architects , an architecture firm based in Tampa, Florida. Annual Report.NAAB. [2] NCARB by the numbers.

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26 Pioneering Architecture Firms Rethinking the Fundamentals of Design

Architizer

Ranging in size, geography and expertise, these 26 studios came out on top in the Best Firm Categories. Rooted in a solid conceptual approach, the firm elevates functional design into inspiring schemes that envelop the senses. While the following practices excelled in their categories, their work has a broader resonance.

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Advantages of Remote Hiring and Onboarding for Architects

EntreArchitect

Our first experience with remote hiring was March 18, 2020 – the first day the firm started working from home. She returned in 2004 after earning her Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University.

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Gradient House, Sequitur winery and the rise of an award-winning firm: Linden, Brown Architecture

Portland Architecture

For me, like many, Gradient provided an introduction to the work Linden, Brown, which is the latest in a succession of award-winning local small firms founded by architects formerly with Portland’s Allied Works (including Waechter Architecture, Lever Architecture, and Beebe Skidmore).

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