EntreArchitect

MAY 23, 2017

I went to school for architecture, not business!”. ” These are the sentiments of many firms in the architecture community. There’s absolutely nothing creative about it and yet it is crucial to the growth of all design firms. How to Automate your Small Architecture Firm. Bring it on!

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 18, 2018

During good times and bad, the dangers threatening our firms not only come from outside pressures but literally from inside our heads. Six Ways To Earn More Profit As A Small Firm Architect. Here are six approaches to earning more profit as a small firm architect: 1. So what can we do? Cut your expenses.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

Recruitment Strategies for Small Firm Architects. Recruiting new employees is one of the most important things a professional services firm can do to be sustainable. Firms leaders can start by breaking down recruitment into three stages: developing a candidate pool, narrowing to set of finalists, and negotiating the hire.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 19, 2016

Seven years into owning our own small firm, Annmarie and I decided to make some changes. Before I scheduled these tasks, I found that I would fit them in around project deadlines and client meetings. Some months we have money left over and other months we struggle to pay each bill. Question: Do you prepare financial statements?

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This is a guest post written by Andrew Armstrong, an architecture and design enthusiast, business owner, and digital marketing strategist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Architectural designs have been traditionally been limited by technology (or a lack thereof) as much as the vision and abilities of the architect.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

We make thousands of decisions during the development of a typical architectural project. We must protect ourselves, our firms and our families from the risk of legal action. We must create business systems that make these processes routine and automatic during the development of every architectural project.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 21, 2017

Fees for Small Firm Architects. During a typical architectural project, we make thousands of decisions, work hundreds of hours and are responsible, by law, for the health, safety and welfare of the people using our buildings. We’re a disgruntled bunch of professionals. We are worth more.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

” When Annmarie and I launched Fivecat Studio more than 15 years ago we had no projects, no clients and no money. We were two young architects seeking the freedom of our own firm. A friend helped start us off with our first project; a new local restaurant named Meetinghouse located in Bedford, New York. A garage addition?

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 26, 2014

Project conversions have been up and down for more than a decade. Our best year, in terms of converting Prospects to Projects was 2004. I know this as fact, because I track my firm’s Prospect to Project Ratio. Every year since Annmarie and I launched the firm in 1999, we’ve had a full workload.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This quiet time would clear my mind and prepare me for the “chaos” that is running a small firm architecture studio. I find it is also important to stay aware of any potential fires smoldering among our projects. Schedule Project Tasks. I’d stay off the highway, take the back roads and keep the radio turned off.

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SW Oregon Architect

JUNE 2, 2024

In addition to celebrating my retirement milestone, Eric asked me to reflect on my career and the lessons I learned during my four decades-plus in the architectural profession. Specifically, he challenged me to dispense five “pearls of wisdom” that architects who are at the helm of small firms today might find useful.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2016

At Fivecat Studio , we’ve had several projects published. Apply each rule yourself and you’ll soon be seeing your best projects online and in print. 10 Rules For Getting Your Projects Published as an Architect. I am often asked, “How can I get noticed if my projects don’t have big budgets?” Every project has a story.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 18, 2017

For all professional design firms there are two different, yet interrelated levels of profitability – a firm’s overall profitability and the profitability of each completed project. Historically, the profitability of professional design firms is, on average, in the range of 8-12%. Profit is Independent of Projects.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 12, 2016

In this article Marica shares her recent experience with building a new team for her small firm and how she is being intentional about the culture in which they work. Day 2 began with morning yoga, a walk through one of our projects which was under construction nearby, and then back to the table for our final session.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Founded by data scientists in Denmark and launched earlier this year, Revalu aims to cater to both large and small architecture practices, with three different ways to engage with its data platform. She describes "a slight monopolisation happening" over sustainability in architecture, with small firms falling "very far behind".

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

One of the problems we have in the architecture profession (and there are many) is that we have allowed our perceived value to drop way below our true value. A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects. We worked hard, designed projects that people talked about and were well known in our market. We hit a wall.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2016

The phones stop ringing and fresh prospects cease to inquire about new projects. For many of us small firm architects, this sounds a bit scary. How can we close the doors, shut down our projects, disconnect email for more than a day or two? 5 Steps to a Summer Shut Down at an Architecture Firm. Lake Powell.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The story of growing Kohn Pedersen Fox from 3 partners to an international architecture firm of 700+. In 1992 Gene Kohn, Chairman and Founder of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) spoke at my architecture school. I was a 22-year-old architecture student and a born entrepreneur. Gene inspired me that day in 1992.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 10, 2023

In 1992 Gene Kohn, Chairman and Founder of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) spoke at my architecture school. I was a 22-year-old architecture student and a born entrepreneur. In December of 2019, twenty-seven years after his visit to my architecture school, I invited Gene to be my guest for Episode 300 at EntreArchitect Podcast.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

To successfully complete a project, an architect is responsible for making thousands of critical decisions. To complete the development of a standard residential additions and alterations project, it takes several months of focus and dedication. Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!),

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Architizer’s global architectural awards program, the 12th Annual A+Awards , is now accepting submissions, with a Main Entry Deadline of December 15th, 2023. The A+List forms a comprehensive guide to the world’s best architecture firms and is refreshed each year based on the results of the annual A+Awards program.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 9, 2023

To qualify for the R&D tax break, an architect must be working on a project that involves experimentation or the development of a new product or process. These include the cost of hiring employees to work on the project, purchasing supplies and equipment, and paying for outside consulting services.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Take the Time to Examine Project Financials—You Won’t Regret It. Your projects have many moving parts, and sometimes tracking their financials might seem overwhelming. You might not get all the information you want or maybe, you don’t even bother to determine the profitability of each project because it would involve too much time.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 23, 2018

Effective project execution is associated with successful achievement of design intent, high-quality construction, profitability and efficiency. Effective management indeed rests in part with a project manager’s ability to deliver a quality project on time and within the approved fee. The Four Corners of Every Project.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Our reputation for finely detailed residential architecture and our care for clients throughout the process of design and construction has established Fivecat Studio as a leading firm in the Westchester County region. We reduced expenses, expanded our market and relaxed our focus on our target project type. Survival is Success.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2023

Nine in 10 UK architecture studios feel Brexit has had a negative impact on them, exclusive Dezeen research has found. Three years on from the UK's departure from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, Dezeen conducted a survey of 50 architecture studios asking about their experiences of working post-Brexit. Salaries have risen.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Empowering architects to better serve the world with more than 681,000 total downloads in 2021, the EntreArchitect Podcast has grown to serve small firm architects from every corner of the planet. Number 2 with 7,072 downloads is episode 416 with Edward Shannon – The Sole Practitioner Architecture Firm.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Our job as small firm architects is not only to design great buildings or to prepare construction documents, which become the legal contract between owner and contractor. The job of a small firm architect, whether working with residential or small commercial clients, is to lead them through an experience.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 14, 2018

Project Fee Budgeting for Architects. Sadly, there’s no way for an architect to guarantee their projects will be profitable, let alone earn a minimum 20% Net Profit at the completion of any project. My preferred best practice method for developing a project fee is the “Top-Down, Bottom Up” approach to fee budgeting.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “My First Project”, so I decided to repost a 3-part article I originally published back in 2013. It’s not only the story of my first project, but the complete story of how my wife and architect business partner Annmarie McCarthy and I started our own architecture firm.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me — It’s the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights …” Why do we love well-designed architecture? “I am grateful that this project has been appreciated globally. “It

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Architizer’s global architectural awards program, the 11th Annual A+Awards , is now accepting submissions, with a Main Entry Deadline of December 16th this year. The A+List forms a comprehensive guide to the world’s best architecture firms and is refreshed each year based on the results of the annual A+Awards program.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 23, 2022

The way to get consensus is not by selling an idea, to exclusion of the truth of all possibilities, the way to make anything is to take the time to present the opportunities in ways that convey all the project’s properties, whether positive or challenging – use, cost, maintenance, context, environment, aesthetics – all of them.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 3, 2016

As we move into a new month, we are shifting our focus to a new category of small firm success. How can we ensure that at the end of each project, we have inspired “raving fans” eager to spread the word about our exceptional skills, talents and remarkable customer service? How do we best serve our clients?

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EntreArchitect

MAY 5, 2015

It organizes my personal life, life at my architecture firm Fivecat Studio and here at EntreArchitect. In my never-ending quest to find the most effective and efficient business systems for architects, I recently started to integrate Evernote into my project management system at Fivecat Studio. It works well.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 30, 2022

This is a project done in 2020. When it comes to architecture, the basics demand survival and safety. To think that the joy of beauty is limited to art, or music, or architecture is sophistry. Graduating from Cornell in 1977, Duo Dickinson opened his architectural practice in 1987. We make it.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 25, 2021

CO Architects is an architectural practice of diverse employees, hailing from multiple countries and speaking multiple languages. CO’s goal was to expose more Black people to CO Architects and the architectural profession, since Black architects represent about 2% of all licensed architects and Black women represent approximately 0.4%.

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