Archmark

JUNE 16, 2021

Repeat clients tend to constantly put pressure on architects to reduce fees, making those jobs less and less profitable, despite rising costs and expenses. The big problem with passive business development is that you don’t have control over when or how clients come to you. What do you do and who do you do it for?

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 16, 2019

The package you are required to submit is highly rigorous in its requirements and when completed, is every bit of 40 pages of why you are the greatest thing to ever happen to the field of architecture. Of course, this only works when the scale figures you use are the right size. Personally, I think both would be appropriate.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

This article was written by architect Timothy Ung of JourneyofanArchitect.com. Editor’s Note: Timothy has an updated version of this article here. Once we won the college of Fellows grant, my co-organizer and I sat together at a local café and brainstormed venues, food, people, and our budget for the event.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 20, 2014

Make Your Own Opportunities Make Your Own Opportunities Bob Borson — April 21, 2014 — 26 Comments Young architectural interns are awesome … full of promise and possibility. When I graduated in 1992, the economy wasn’t very good and I was happy to get a job. Look the part and people will take you more seriously.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

Almost any article you read regarding energy-efficient construction, how tight the house is to air leakage is a huge consideration in the final thermal performance. The SIP research home was five times more airtight than the wood-frame room when measured by a blower door test.

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e-architect

JANUARY 29, 2023

Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us?

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Out of all these houses, probably 99% of them have been for actual clients and not for the speculative home building market – and I’m fairly glad that’s the case because as much as I like to design awesome projects, I generally prefer awesome clients. 2 Two-story Family Room – What?!?

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 1, 2014

You can’t hardly go a day without seeing some article out there talking about how all the bees are disappearing and what a huge problem it is. I just assumed that they had finally outgrown the interior of this tree trunk and moved on to greener pastures. I was wrong. This Spring, they came back. Wrong again.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Home / Blog / To Delete or Not To Delete … To Delete or Not To Delete … Bob Borson — April 3, 2014 — 91 Comments There are times when I am a glass is half-full sort of person and there are times when I am a glass-half-full-needs-to-be-poured-over-your-head type person. I don’t delete comments.

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Community Architect Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

People are cynical about it, in part because many "game changers" before had been welcomed with enthusiasm but are almost forgotten now, because they failed to deliver what had been promised. What makes failure and what success? A few years after its introduction the project has already lost its luster.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

What will hopefully make this presentation interesting is that the lecture is open to the general public so the audience will be made up of architects AND non-architects. Apparently, that’s how I classify people … Architects and Non-Architects. Like this post – “ This Make My Face Hurt.”

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Community Architect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For no good reason, I thought, who wants to deter people from hiking? The great outdoors: Les Laurentides, Quebec Photo: Philipsen Turns out that when everyone was locked up in some kind of isolation, the outdoors became the place to be. When COVID hit, there were more fellow walkers or even runners, many with earbuds.

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Building and Interiors

APRIL 7, 2022

For a professional, it becomes important that they deliver the best results without committing any mistakes. Therefore, this article focuses on all the aspects of planning a modular kitchen layout. Also, the article will discuss common kitchen mistakes and their solutions. Kitchen zones and work triangle. Sitting zone.

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Archmark

JULY 11, 2018

Even when they think the leads are coming in — maybe a referral from a past client or a repeat client back for more — many architects know the fear that those projects won’t be ideal; but bills have to be paid, so those will be the right projects for right now. What action do they need to take to move forward? What’s the process?’

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Community Architect

APRIL 7, 2023

In a series of articles I will describe my most noteworthy insights and experiences from this trip. Rotterdam brought housing back to the urban core and in a creative adaptive reuse for its partly deserted industrial sectors, it tried to harness innovation. Part 1 covered transportation.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Quite honestly, there isn’t a typical answer to this question so, in an effort to paint a picture of what you could expect when imagining your life as me ( admit it … who hasn’t done that?!?) I thought about making some bacon for breakfast but … wah-waaa.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. But that’s not really the entire story is it?

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I stand by that comment and think that clean and easy to read architectural drawings do more than just make me feel good about my artistic side, they help convey information to the people you are creating the drawings for in the first place. Moving on to Details - Details might actually be the most fun thing for me to draw.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. In our office of 8 people, with the exception of the partners, everybody has the exact same set of responsibilities.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If you have gone through the process yourself in the last 10 years you know exactly what I mean – it seems like there is a never-ending line of people with their hands out, telling you that you have to pay for every single step along the way – and we all know that there are a lot of steps along the way to becoming a licensed architect.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 23, 2015

The other piece of good news is that every design entry that gets advanced into the final round will get a sweet award certificate acknowledging your accomplishment – and make no mistake, it is a big accomplishment. Joe is going to make an awesome judge. ” which is exactly why I want them on the judging panel.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 19, 2018

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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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A shopping centre outside Johannesburg was converted into 50 low-cost homes on a tight budget in our next Social Housing Revival project case study. We always wanted to shift the narrative from the delivery of houses to housing – from individual homes to collective housing models, and to support the emerging social-housing sector."

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is the question I’ve been asking myself since the day I was asked, at age 26, to design the house that would replace my mom’s childhood home, effectively becoming the central home for my maternal side. ” It encouraged me to understand other people’s perspectives and ask questions about why they prefer one style over another.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 7, 2020

When you need to boost your online presence, this digital marketing playbook for architects will help you with all kinds of short cuts and resources. Please use the comment section at the very end of the article if you’re interested in learning more or were hoping to see more. Why would we give all of this away for free?

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Community Architect

MARCH 5, 2021

Horokoro The enigma is us, the people That the future remains shrouded in a dense fog is less because the virus is an enigma, and more because humans are one as well. On the country level, autocratic China quickly reached a state, in which it gives its people more liberties than the the US where liberty is written all over the Constitution.

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