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6 Business Development Strategies to Grow Your Architecture Firm

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Strategic Tips to Keep Your Architecture Business Thriving. Six Important Architecture Firm Business Development Strategies Are you taking on projects that really don’t fit your architecture firm? Do you know what the dream project for your architecture business looks like? ACTION STEP: Clarity is the key!

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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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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Reviewing the work of contractors, so they can get paid, . Architecture school is often about examining information and using that information to creatively find solutions to problems. . After many years of studying, the main purpose of school is to set architecture students up for entering the profession. .

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My Ultimate Guide to Landing Your First Job in Architecture

EntreArchitect

This past December I was invited to speak at AIAS Forum 2013; the American Institute of Architecture Students national convention. While we waited for the airports to open, I had the opportunity to speak in length with many of the architecture students in attendance. I grew up in a family of auto mechanics and tradesmen.

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My First Project: The Best Project Ever Designed That Wasn’t

Life of an Architect

Back in my early career, the firm I worked for ( which was the earliest incarnation of the firm where I am now a partner ) focused almost exclusively on retail jobs – and we did a lot of them. The quality of contractor we typically were able to work with was extremely high.

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You Make Your Own Opportunities | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I’ve been around the architectural block more times than I care to admit at this stage of my career and I have learned a few things along the way. One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. is a very good thing.

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The Finalists – 2015 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition

Life of an Architect

Andrew Hawkins – past President of AIA Brazos Chapter, and the owner of Hawkins Architecture – a very successful firm based in College Station, Texas. I’m Caitlin and I’m a fourth year student at Drexel University. We love architecture and each other! Living the dream!

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