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Back to School: Marketing for Architects

EntreArchitect

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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Be Better

EntreArchitect

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. The lessons we learn and the skills we acquire during our time in architecture school make us unique to any other people on earth.

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Oklahoma State University: Architecture & Entrepreneurship

EntreArchitect

Oklahoma State is developing a program called Architecture & Entrepreneurship. Every architecture school should be doing the same. The post Oklahoma State University: Architecture & Entrepreneurship appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects.

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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. When I started, I wasn’t an entry level student worker, I had 3 years’ experience in other architecture offices before this job and I was at the end of my education.

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Mentoring is an Integral Part of the Profession

EntreArchitect

One of the requirements of becoming a licensed architect is the intern development program which logs on the job training under certain tasks which is then signed off by a licensed architect. In this former job everyone was so disengaged and there was absolutely no benefit in staying there, in fact that office was toxic for my development.

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Letter To My Beloved Profession (Guest Post)

EntreArchitect

1 – Starting at the academic level, the architecture schools’ curriculum of the 21st century need to include collaboration with contractors, developers and business owners. 2 – After graduation, the newly minted architectural intern should enter a dedicated network of architecture firms.

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Citizen Architect … seems redundant

Life of an Architect

A great deal of architectural education is about seeing the world through a lens of aesthetic sensibility and how to take what we see and insert strategies that bring balance and harmony. Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”.

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