EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Originally published on the week of this blog’s relaunch on December 12, 2012, this article has been the most popular week in, week out. The innovative ideas and concepts we create can often only be born after hours (sometimes days) of intense thought and several dozen layers of sketch paper. How do YOU make more money?

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A Better Built Environment

APRIL 4, 2021

CVG is a company that works with small architecture firms to help them run better business, and grow. I’ll be joining them as a Senior Account Manager, consulting with firms to help improve their operations, management, and finances. You can learn more about CVG and what we do here. This can’t happen soon enough.

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Architecture Quote

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here are 140+ software tools architecture firms need to know about to stay ahead in 2020. ArchitectureQuote helps innovative SME architecture firms discover and win more projects. It is a great digital tool for architects as the platform provides a high focus on continuous innovation and personal customer service to each client.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. The rest of my afternoon is starting to look up – all that’s missing is a beer Hashtags used: #sketching.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Listen to the podcast , subscribe to the newsletter and return back here to the blog each week for more information on how to generate more sales for your small firm by creating long-term value from your clients, markets, and relationships. Be certain that launching your own firm is what you truly want to do. Be Certain.

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Archmark

MAY 16, 2018

Use Email Marketing to Help Build Your Architecture Firm. The truth is, there are some emails I like to keep and go back to so I can revisit links to articles and blogs, and several that I will take action on to sign up for a webinar or grab a download. It's also a good way to stay top-of-mind with prospects and past clients.

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Archmark

MAY 15, 2018

Use Email Marketing to Help Build Your Architecture Firm  Five Tips for Improving Your Email Marketing 149,513 That's how many emails are sent every single minute. Let’s say we’re trying to create a subject line for this very blog post. Or, get on camera yourself to show your personality and share your firm's mission or story.

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Architecture Here and There

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The architect for GTECH actually plopped a sketch of his building onto a poster-sized copy of Richard Benjamin’s lovely photograph. This blog has decided to take a breather before reprinting Chapter 21, “Waterplace and WaterFire,” and Chapter 22. The montage looked ridiculous, even blasphemous.

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Design Thoughts Architects

APRIL 13, 2022

Provide a survey sketch and soil test report to the architect. A series of sketches will be properly arranged based on the basic facts gathered. Allow the contractor to follow the architect for any technical matters; if the contractor engages with the client for any technical matters, chaos follows. Source: Shutterstock.

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Architecture Quote

JULY 7, 2020

All the best architecture studios and design firms in the world do this. Building Your Architecture Website – Home Page : Before you get started, you need to ask yourself the following questions about your architecture services business: What makes you a unique architecture firm ? Image by Dezeen from Pintrest.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The other problem most architectural websites suffer from is updating them with current projects – something that my own firm has been guilty of for the past several years. Last week my firm, Malone Maxwell Borson Architects, finally went live with our new website. The old site was just that – old.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The innovative ideas and concepts we create can often only be born after hours (sometimes days) of intense thought and several dozen layers of sketch paper. Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), Most sole practitioners and small firms I know struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 23, 2014

Since I don’t have a blog roll on my site, I am going to put together a yearly list of my favorite websites. It offers the insight of a professional architectural site while also providing the personal attention and 1st person narrative of a blog – which you can probably guess is something of which I am particularly fond.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Architecture schools need to address their faculty’s experience in actually building buildings, with clients and builders. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Steve is the creator of ArchiOffice ® the leading office, project management and time tracking software used in more than 1,000 small and mid-sized architectural firms. Please visit Steve at Linkedin and Twitter , or check out his Blog and thank him for sharing with us at Entrepreneur Architect. – Mark. Accounting.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 7, 2021

Traditionally architects have withheld their ignorance of how to build, how to listen to clients, and often their inability to just work in the world of builders and codes in hopes that when given a chance to build something, anything, the world will see their value. Architects need to prove credibility, or simply lose it to Alexa.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Without further ado, explore this remarkable array of women, and to be considered for coverage in this upcoming year, make sure your firm enters its work in the A+Awards before March 4th, 2022. Over the past two decades, Amale Andraos has distinguished herself as an architect, educator and urban theorist. Raha Ashrafi . Stella Betts.

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Community Architect

APRIL 7, 2023

In the previous blog about transportation in Rotterdam I touched on Rotterdam's devastating bombing in a Nazi Germany air raid that turned much of historic Rotterdam into rubble and cost over 700 lives in a single night and how the city planners have turned this tragedy into an opportunity of re-invention and development that came in various phases.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 6, 2013

The phrase itself presents a scenario where one party is clearly at odds with the other … bad architects think it and bad clients say it. ” Client : “I don’t like white, it’s boring. ” Client : “ But I really like blue and think it would be great.” enter the narrative.]

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

6:45am I had to sketch out a quick graphic image for my annual “ What to Get an Architect for Christmas ” post. A Christmas ornament seemed Christmas-y enough so I sketched it up, took a picture of it with my phone, brought it into Photoshop where I added some color, and then *BOOM* … the graphic was created.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

We have a lot of photographers that are friends of the firm and we found one who was willing and able to accommodate the size of our model. In my previous experiences with 5 firms- only virtual models were made. And this is a really great blog.:) Most models in our office could be shot in-house with the tiniest amount of effort.

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Architecture Chat

JANUARY 9, 2021

Travelling, sketching, researching, writing –you do it all. The end of this year gets stimulating because of the next big question –how to create an outstanding portfolio and going to internships in renowned firms? You may want to start your firm or explore new realms of architecture through travelling, photography, or writing.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 20, 2018

We struggled to launch our firms, often without the education or a firm knowledge of the basic fundamentals of business. We searched for the best clients and we serve them each, to the best of our ability. If we were employed by a larger firm, we would never have the flexibility or the freedom that we so cherish.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 11, 2015

The encouraging footnote to that figure is that, of the businesses that start with a client on day one, the failure rate drops to just 2 out of every 10. It’s going to take time to fill your boards with work, to build a client base, and a referral network of trusted contacts. There won’t be one. Lesson 4 – Set Goals.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I loved playing with Lego’s as a child (variation 1b is “I used to sketch up house plans as a child.”) This does not prepare you for the fact the folks who hire you, your clients, don’t share the same taste, the same priorities or the same sensibilities. ”) 2. Occasionally, the unforeseen run for toilet paper.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The innovative ideas and concepts we create can often only be born after hours (sometimes days) of intense thought and several dozen layers of sketch paper. Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

If your school doesn’t put any sort of emphasis on sketching, burn an elective (or two) and take a class over in the arts building. What’s the Right sized firm for you? Architectural Portfolio’s and their true purpose Architectural Sketching Taking the Architectural Registration Exam Do you want to be an Architect?

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 11, 2014

Since a number of people don’t seem to understand this concept, I thought I would whip together some sketches to help illustrate my point. I have no doubt that the stories our client will tell folks about his house will include more than just “this is white oak flooring” or “this is a pier and beam foundation.”

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

It leads to clients having significantly more trust in architects who have already designed and built many successful projects, demonstrating that they have extensive experience. They can sketch and verbally explain functions and relations between spaces while already subconsciously incorporating structure into the design.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

For the past twelve weeks, we’ve explored every element required for a successful architecture firm. I’ve been continuously improving my firm’s project management system since we launched in 1999. Systems are the sound structure of a successful architectural firm. Listen carefully. Estimate often.

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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. To sum up, I am not my blog.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Fast forward 20+ years and here I am today; a partner in a terrific firm, a previous AIA “Young Architect of the Year” recipient, projects in my portfolio that I am proud of creating, leadership positions in my professional organization (Dallas Chapter American Institute of Architects and the Texas Society of Architects).

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Home / Graphics / Graphic Standards Graphic Standards Bob Borson — October 21, 2013 — 99 Comments How an architect draws is a reflection of many things – you can frequently tell the priorities of a firm just by looking at the quality of their drawings. My instructor was pretty hardcore and intense, but it paid off.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

One of the items we spent time thinking about was how the client would age in place at this house. The client thought there was simply “too much concrete” in this area for his tastes. Clients love to be able to see the models. I still think sketch up is way easier, but just for 3d views.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Which would explain why I’m at this blog. although I’m kind of new in the business (a recent graduate – 3 years now), I have also been there enough to understand what’s really going on, since my father is an architect too and runs his own firm. maybe there is, maybe the client wants or needs that!

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 15, 2014

I am a principle and an owner in the firm and I don’t think I’m going anywhere any time soon. My child Is being formed right now (wife is prego) and I need a better job (firm job) cuz this isn’t cutting it. Your blogs bring sense to my life! Enjoy your blog. Please continue to blog.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I even sketched the floor plan of my room at the bottom. ( i gotta say im so happy that i found your blog. i like sketching, i dont like dealing with paints etc. Tech was mentioned in your blog! (74′ Judit Hi Bob, I am an architect from Hungary and I really like your blog! Inna hello! i think i can draw well.

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