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6 Business Development Strategies to Grow Your Architecture Firm

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Strategic Tips to Keep Your Architecture Business Thriving. Six Important Architecture Firm Business Development Strategies Are you taking on projects that really don’t fit your architecture firm? The more they understand about your architecture firm and your approach, the better they can explain it to others.

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My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture

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Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard one-page resume to every architecture firm in the New York metropolitan area. There were hundreds of architecture students graduating that spring and they were all competing for the same few positions available in the region.

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My Ultimate Guide to Landing Your First Job in Architecture

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This past December I was invited to speak at AIAS Forum 2013; the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. While we waited for the airports to open, I had the opportunity to speak in length with many of the architecture students in attendance. I grew up in a family of auto mechanics and tradesmen.

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The Finalists – 2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition

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Andrew Hawkins – past President of AIA Brazos Chapter, and the owner of Hawkins Architecture – a very successful firm based in College Station, Texas. I’m Caitlin and I’m a fourth year student at Drexel University. We love architecture and each other! Living the dream!

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

First thing I learned to do on my very first “job” at an architectural firm Mark Mc Swain Most “City” folding formats are based on whether the P&D/Engineering Office file cabinets are Letter versus Legal sized format. Cam Ahhhhh such joy it brings to see someone still knows the right way to do this.

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The First 500 Project with Tiara Hughes of NOMA (Transcript)

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We had to produce a lot of artists who basically buy gifts for all of the kids in the school and the art instructor basically said, “do what you want to do, do what you’re good at, figure out something” And so I realized very quickly that I could draw buildings from the books pretty well. I did exactly that.

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Scottish Architecture News: Buildings in Scotland

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Commissioned by the GSA from external consultants (a hub West-led team including Avison Young) the analysis was undertaken in line with the HM Treasury Green Book guidance and Scottish Public Investment Manual. hub South West and contractor, BAM, set to revive Ayr town centre with construction of new leisure facility. 22 October 2021.