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This Los Angeles ADU Builder Says It Can Add a Home to Your Backyard in Nine Months

Dwell

Prefab company Cover offers turnkey projects by handling permitting, installation, and everything in between. The founders, Alexis and Jemuel, met in architecture school and saw a clear problem: Traditional homebuilding was costly, time consuming, and unpredictable," says Alden Kramer, a business development specialist at the brand. "At

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

fine tuning that design, creating construction drawings, specifications, details, getting cost estimates, solving code issues, obtaining building permits, supporting the contractor with information during construction, responding to unforeseeable conditions, working with and coordinating furniture, IT, and moving consultants. .

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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 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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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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Be Better

EntreArchitect

Should non-architects be permitted to use the term “architect”? Architecture is a business. 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. How would they compete? How is that fair?

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Doug Minarik

Portland Architecture

DOUG MINARIK: Touring hill towns in Greece was where I realized architecture was the right career choice, something clicked, architecture was much more than drafting plans for a house. That Greek trip was during my 4th year of architecture school. I started in engineering but transferred to architecture after a semester.

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Decoupling revenue from time [9]

A Better Built Environment

Cost of designing and building a custom home I break down a typical project budget and discuss design fees, permitting, costs, and construction costs. The first two are perfect for those who are thinking about starting an architecture or design firm or who have recently gone out on their own.

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