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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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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Reviewing the work of contractors, so they can get paid, . Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. . After many years of studying, the main purpose of school is to set architecture students up for entering the profession. .

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My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture

EntreArchitect

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

EntreArchitect

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

Life of an Architect

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 Job Starter Kit | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1. So right on Bob.

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Scottish Architecture News: Buildings in Scotland

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BDP’s recent acquisition of the specialist sports and stadia architecture firm, Pattern Design – the practice delivering Everton FC’s new £500 million waterfront stadium – results in BDP’s return to Edinburgh. hub South West and contractor, BAM, set to revive Ayr town centre with construction of new leisure facility. 2 Apr 2021.