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Sharing Our Love for Architecture with the Next Generation

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Sharing Architecture With Kids. If you’re anything like me, my guess is that you loved your time in architecture school. You get to use your talents and develop it with loose abandon, explore your interests and learn all about design and architecture – one of the coolest fields in the world. What’s not to love?

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Top 5 Reasons to work in a Large Architectural Firm | Life of an.

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Focused Work As opposed to a small firm, large firms are known to acquire some large projects – transport hubs, airports, large offices and more. Smile and remain cheerful, y’all Robby I work at a mid-size (50 people) office of a large firm (450 people). ” Your is a possessive word.

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The Entrepreneur Architect Manifesto

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In architecture school, we each had a professor who told us that architecture should be practiced for the art and art alone. “If If you want to make money”, they said, “quit now, take a walk across campus and enroll at the business school.”. The following is an introduction to The Entrepreneur Architect Manifesto. .

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Letter To My Beloved Profession (Guest Post)

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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. LEED AP BD+C.

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21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture

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Learn BIM (Revit) and become proficient while in school. SUSTAINABILITY IS YOUR CALLING AND OPPORTUNITY. If you endeavor to learn a lot about sustainability while in school, you will be able to share your knowledge with current practitioners and become peers. Take the sustainability lead within your firm.

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Incremental Progress is the Key to Long-Term Success (Transcript)

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LePage and you are listening to EntreArchitect podcast where I speak with inspiring, passionate people who shared their knowledge and expertise all to help you build a better business as a small firm entrepreneur, architect. Freshbooks, the cloud based accounting software that makes running your small firm easy, fast and secure.

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Citizen Architect … seems redundant

Life of an Architect

The Citizen Architect advocates for higher living standards, the creation of a sustainable environment, quality of life, and the greater good. Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”.

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