Life of an Architect

APRIL 10, 2016

Simply based on my inbox, there is a new batch of bright and shiny new future architects about to graduate and they are on the hunt for their future … hopefully in an office like mine. The Not so Sexy Side of Architecture Practicing architecture for 99.9% Why Should You Read This? Why Should You Read This?

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 30, 2016

Each month, dozens of architect bloggers from around the world publish a post on a specific topic simultaneously on the same date. That means eager prospects with exciting new projects will start looking for architects to help design and build their dreams. As small firm architects, how do we get noticed by those prospects?

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Architizer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. Architecture school is difficult. Students should not face unworkable schedules that force them to sacrifice their sleep and overall health. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter. .

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client.

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Architizer

MARCH 22, 2022

More specifically, our @architizer TikTok account offers a selection of playful or informative inspiration videos showcasing Architizer projects in short video sequences and more. By following and engaging with our videos, you can help give shape to our TikTok content while growing your knowledge and architectural community.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Architecture firm Rotative Studio has created three colourful temporary pavilions for reading and socialising in the Place du Marché square in Aigle, Switzerland. Read: Swiss architecture students design and build wooden events pavilion beneath Zurich overpass. Rotative Studio has built three colourful pavilions in Aigle.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

The Finalists – 2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition … there are a lot of people from around the planet who are anxiously awaiting these results. Andrew Hawkins – past President of AIA Brazos Chapter, and the owner of Hawkins Architecture – a very successful firm based in College Station, Texas.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 16, 2017

The 2017 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition had its first round of judging last Friday – and it was probably the most difficult process we’ve experienced so far. While most of the judges are not architecturally trained, even they could spot a design that had scale issues.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Today I’m in Chicago at AIAS Forum 2013 celebrating the new year with a thousand architecture students from every corner of North America. I’ve been asked to present a workshop session based on the Entrepreneur Architect Academy blog series , which I posted during the first weeks of this year.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

New this season, firms can gain recognition for their entire portfolio of work thanks to the addition of the new Best Firm categories celebrating practices of all sizes, geographies and specializations. Wandile arrived at Andrews University, Michigan, a precocious architecture student with charismatic leadership qualities.

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e-architect

AUGUST 24, 2023

Thermal analysis was carried out to inform design principles, orientation, window sizes, glazing types, shading and natural ventilation requirements. Photo Credit: Jim Stephenson and MICA What are the sustainability features? Embodied carbon calculations were carried out showing that the building meets the RIBA 2030 targets.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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 a profession like law and medicine.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Architect from the University of Bío-Bío. He is co-founder of AZÓCAR CATRÓN, an Architecture and Urbanism studio and workshop established in Concepción together with Carolina Catrón. Venice Architecture Biennale 2018: “Freespace”, with the installation “Stand Ground”. Architect, researcher and editor, PhD in architecture.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 20, 2014

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Home / Do you want to be an Architect? Make Your Own Opportunities Make Your Own Opportunities Bob Borson — April 21, 2014 — 26 Comments Young architectural interns are awesome … full of promise and possibility.

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Architizer

JULY 19, 2022

Currently led by David Weber, Architizer was founded in 2009 by Alex Diehl, Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and Ben Prosky with a mission to help architects build better buildings, better cities, and a better world. I was sort of big public outreach person for the School of Architecture, GSSAP. Instagram wasn’t a thing yet.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

About a year ago I announced the idea behind my 12/12/12 Project and invited the small Entrepreneur Architect community to take their lives to the next level. My 12/12/12 Project was to launch the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast and relaunch this website as EntreArchitect.com. “Do something life altering!”,

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

That’s what recent A+Awards winners have taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Architecture Studio ’s Yoko Fujii and Apparatus Architects ’ Gabriella Gamma to KIENTRUC O ’s Anni Le and Formafatal ’s Dagmar Št?pánová.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We know you don’t want to spend all of Christmas eve trawling through overcrowded stores, getting frustrated and settling on another mug with a semi-funny architects-love coffee-related quote when what you could be doing is cozying up in fresh pajamas and getting an early night in time for the big man. Print Club London x Luckies .

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 30, 2013

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Home / Architects / Architectural Tricks of the Trade Architectural Tricks of the Trade Bob Borson — October 31, 2013 — 55 Comments Architects have all sorts of mannerisms and processes in place that seem to transcend their time and place.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? What it means is that we learned how to think and communicate our ideas slightly different from the product of today’s architecture programs. It shows that Ive been consistent in using these techniques.]

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 11, 2016

Our Expert Training sessions at the Academy are designed to go deep and provide as much information as possible. Rena’s presentation provided members with everything they need to know to organize their finances and understand the flow of money in and out of their firms. Prepare a total expected income for the year.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

I just walked into the building’s lobby during my summer vacation and asked the elevator operator to take me to [Zeckendorf’s firm] Webb & Knapp – totally different times [circa 1954], no security. I did not say I was an architecture student, which I certainly was not. I was just a kid. You go, RAMSA!

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2022

Through courses, coaching and other business advisory services, Archibiz helps architects fill in the gaps in their business education so they can lead more profitable and sustainable practices. . In a 2018 op-ed, a New York Times writer posed the following question: “ Where are all the female architects ?”.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 8, 2015

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 a profession like law and medicine.

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e-architect

MAY 28, 2023

Elliot Robertson , Chief Executive Officer, Robertson Group, said: “ONE BioHub is one of many projects being delivered by Opportunity North East (ONE) that not only lead to economic diversification in the region, but put it firmly on the global stage through its commitment to assisting the life sciences through innovation and commercialisation.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This week I will be traveling to Houston for the Texas Society of Architects’s 75th annual convention and design expo. I will be presenting on Friday morning and speaking on how to succeed in architecture. Every architect will benefit from the skills required to stand before others and clearly communicate their ideas.

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A Better Built Environment

MARCH 11, 2021

Gerber I just finished reading the E-Myth revisited and although it isn’t design/architecture specific, I have to say it strikes a lot of chords with me. I clearly recognize some of the mistakes and patterns from the first firm I started with two partners and it helped identify ways I will approach creating my next venture.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 31, 2016

When architects are in school, they build a lot of models during their coursework. That’s what architecture students did, they built models. But why aren’t more firms building physical models like they – like you – were trained to do when you were in school?

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 5, 2018

Learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. LePage and you are listening to EntreArchitect podcast where I speak with inspiring, passionate people who share their knowledge and expertise to help you build a better business so you can be a better architect.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course: Profit for Small Firm Architects today at EntreArchitect.com/FreeCourse. Catherine Meng received her bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University and joined DLR Group Kwan Hemi in 2016 where she focuses on multifamily and student housing projects.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

To that end, I was in San Antonio, Texas, last week attending the Texas Society of Architects AIA convention and towards the end, gave a presentation on the value of social media for architects. Post Title: It’s an Architect Thing Excerpt: For some Architects, working overtime is part of the job description.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 5, 2014

This past week I was scheduled to be in Chicago for AIAS Forum 2013, the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. Thirty dedicated minutes on stage to spread the word of Entrepreneur Architect to more than a thousand enthusiastic architecture students. I jumped at the opportunity.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

People of colour and women working as architects are often actively discouraged from following their design instincts, FAME Collective founder Tumpa Husna-Yasmin Fellows tells Dezeen in this interview. That's where architects can have conflicting opinions because those in power want to hold on to their one way of designing."

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Architecture Chat

APRIL 2, 2019

Architecture professional experience or internships have gradually become more than just being part of the academic curriculum or a tick mark on a to do list as an architecture student. Geography stands as an important criterion while deciding to practice architecture internship or gain some professional experience.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This is a guest post written by my friend Taylor Schaub, a 4th-year undergraduate architecture student at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She’s pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture degree with a minor in Business. nosce te ipsum: know thyself.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Home / Architects / Should I be an Architect? Should I be an Architect? Bob Borson — February 10, 2014 — 49 Comments The last several years have been hard on the architectural profession.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be 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.

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