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How to Rewrite the Story of Our Profession

EntreArchitect

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is not about the money.

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No More Starving Artist

EntreArchitect

With a twisted sense of pride, too many architects today accept the small firm stereotype of “starving artist”. Seeds planted in architecture school bloom into a full-on virus as professionals launch their own firms and find their way to small business. Architecture is not about the money.

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Architectural Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

So I thought I would put together an architectural job “starter kit” of all the things you should be paying attention to if you’re planning on getting a job at an architectural office. My experience demands that I champion the advantages of working in a small firm, it’s what I know and love.

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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

EntreArchitect

This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “Back to School”, so I am encouraging my fellow small firm architects to go back to school themselves and learn what they need to know to find the work they want and live a life they’ll love. Back to School. summer is almost over and the kids are heading back to school.

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Get your practice on a fast track through technology

EntreArchitect

After getting into architecture school, one of the first things you learn is that the profession requires a lot of sacrifices and many years in order to reach success. The acronym stands for “Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom.” Sacrifice and Patience. The system for explaining this process is called the DIKW pyramid.

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Top 5 Reasons to work in a Large Architectural Firm | Life of an.

Life of an Architect

Starting from Site Appraisal and the Brief, architects and designers will work together on appropriating information into something more understandable to all, which translates to pie charts, mapping, options of massing models on a site, shadow/solar irradiation studies, views and so on. ” Your is a possessive word.

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Dear Future Architects – You need to Hear This

Life of an Architect

Architects – Getting Your First Job Getting your first job in an architecture school is more about who you are than what you can do. I thought I would put together some basics tips and strategies that might help you find the perfect firm for you. Maybe you shouldn’t be in architecture school … you don’t have what it takes.