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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 a profession like law and medicine.

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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

EntreArchitect

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. 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.

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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 a profession like law and medicine.

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Mentoring the Young Architect Will Enrich and Strengthen Our Profession

EntreArchitect

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. In his world, I was just a cheap architecture student day laborer. The Worst Job I Ever Had – and the Most Important. Which are a dime a dozen.

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Be Better

EntreArchitect

I had many interesting conversations with architecture students while I was in Chicago. It was very interesting that many of them had similar questions to those I receive every day from the licensed architects who follow this blog. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. We are taught to see.

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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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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the Profession

EntreArchitect

This week, I am sharing blogging duties with a friend and active supporter of Entrepreneur Architect. He is the founder of Young Architect, a blog featuring articles about design, the architecture registration exam , entrepreneurship, and his journey as a young architect. The Worst Job I Ever Had – and the Most Important.