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Mentoring the Young Architect Will Enrich and Strengthen Our Profession

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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. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. Which are a dime a dozen.

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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

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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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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the 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. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. 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. Others wanted to know about how to start their own firms. Our architectural educations should be viewed more as personal improvement, building our skills and reinforcing our knowledge, and less as a ticket to professional exclusivity.

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The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

EntreArchitect

Being a successful architect takes more than creating a wonderful idea and presenting it to your client. The work involved in setting up your design firm can be overwhelming and 99% of it was never taught to you in school. I once had a phone call with an architecture student asking for advice. Entrepreneurship.

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Design Voice Podcast with Catherine Meng (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

Do you know how to calculate the exact amount you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course: Profit for Small Firm Architects today at EntreArchitect.com/FreeCourse. LePage: 00:01 .

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21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture

EntreArchitect

Get to know everyone in the Architecture community and allied fields (all ages and experience levels). DON’T GET UPSET BY CLIENTS THAT THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. Many processes in firms and details on projects can be improved if you simply point out a better solution to decision makers. Be patient.