EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Every magazine and blog is running an article about how to plan for 2014. Here are seven steps to structure your Monday for a successful work week: No Monday Meetings. This quiet time would clear my mind and prepare me for the “chaos” that is running a small firm architecture studio. Scan Email. How about you?

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

When architects ask me how much it will cost to launch an architecture firm, I say, “as much as you need.” ” Below I will discuss the very basics required to launch a sole proprietor architecture firm. I’ve written about many here at the blog before and many others will be covered in subsequent articles.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 28, 2018

Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? As a development the design fee was “at cost” Is that your preferred fee structure? It was on a bunch of design blogs, the new owners are very private and asked we not publish anymore. Project Name. Project Location. Mill Valley, CA.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 16, 2018

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a continuing blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Is that your preferred fee structure?

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EntreArchitect

JULY 26, 2018

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. HW Engineering (Structural). What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Is that your preferred fee structure?

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EntreArchitect

JULY 19, 2018

Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Is that your preferred fee structure? EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 1, 2018

We are thrilled every time we walk through one of our structures. We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. We may even perform the calculations explained in the free EntreArchitect Profit Course and discover the amounts of revenue needed to flow into our firms in order to be profitable.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 21, 2018

JHF Construction (GC), H&H Engineering (Structural), edited (furniture, art, staging). Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Is that your preferred fee structure? We are a husband and wife design firm (architect husband, interiors wife). Small, high end residential firm.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2018

EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community. Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Spec build- no fee structure. Project Name.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 26, 2016

We are thrilled every time we walk through one of our structures. We’ve read the EntreArchitect blog and listened to the podcast. We may even perform the calculations explained in the free EntreArchitect Profit Course and discover the amounts of revenue needed to flow into our firms in order to be profitable.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 5, 2018

MPE Engineer, Structural Engineer, and Civil Engineer. Firm Address. What type of fee structure did you use on this project? Is that your preferred fee structure? Lump sum is our preferred fee structure made payable in 4 installments. Project Name. Canal House. Project Location. Phoenix, AZ. The Ranch Mine.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 9, 2022

Gravity is not Structure. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. The post Architecture Is Human: Part V – Scale: Size Matters appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. Sculpture can have any size, it has no need for scale. Materials are not Craft.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 30, 2013

Many small firm architects and sole proprietors have declared Repositioning a failure before it has even begun. We’ll decide to learn what we need to know to make our own small firm successful, then teach others to do the same. This August will mark my twentieth year in this profession. It is time we take the lead.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Structural projection is not just for whole buildings, gravity is part of every piece set into every construction. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. What other force is so over-arching, constant, brutally impossible to overcome? Katonah, NY 2018). Architects live through gravity.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 21, 2013

There are hundreds of articles, forums, blog posts and comments discussing how we architects are not paid enough and how our clients don’t understand what we do. Let’s talk… How do you establish your fee structure? The post You Are Worth More appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 8, 2014

If you are a member of the Entrepreneur Architect community (and if you read the blog, listen to the podcast , subscribe to the newsletter or participate at the Linkedin group , that would be you!), We reviewed dozens of successful plans and many of them were unique, innovative alternatives to the traditional design firm.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 22, 2018

If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course: Profit for Small Firm Architects today at EntreArchitect.com/FreeCourse. And I was just in complete awe of like both internal structure of the building. I then took a job with the first firm that was willing to apply for a work visa for me.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. 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. How I Started My Own Architecture Firm. The Large Corporate Firm.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 27, 2017

As a small firm entrepreneur architect working from home, it’s easy for me to roll down the stairs to my studio each day, sit down in my soft office chair and get to work, tapping the keyboard from morning to night. This blog is one example which has lead to improvement in my life and my influence upon thousands of others.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 20, 2014

One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. The firm I worked with (which happens to be the exact same one where I work now) was a start-up … I was the company’s first employee. is a very good thing.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Connect with Jeremy on Linkedin or at his blog Humane Design. Running a small firm requires you to play many different roles. Rather than suggest an elaborate professional development program–even large firms struggle to implement this–I encourage you to seek opportunities to “seize the moment.”

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 17, 2013

Following these comments is a guest post; originally published in the AIA Trust educational booklet, Making The Transition To Running Your Own Firm. As licensed professionals we are legally responsible for the health, safety and welfare of the people using the structures we design. Casso, Executive Director of AIA Trust.

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Archmark

MAY 13, 2022

Set Up and Use Your Linkedin Profile to Find, Attract, and Connect with Your Ideal Architecture Firm Clients Archmark's Definitive Architecture Firm Marketing Guide to Perfecting Your Linkedin Profile. How can you build high-quality marketing relationships for your architecture firm? We are just looking for a set of blueprints.”

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 2, 2014

This project will be constructed using SIP’s (Structurally Insulated Panels), we are using a post tension structural slab, the owner will be extremely active in the construction process, and we are targeting a total construction cost somewhere in the $200 per square foot range. Robert Rockefeller Bob, my first post on your blog.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

With no clients and no money, we launched the firm as a sole proprietorship; Annmarie McCarthy, Architect. Slowly, we grew the firm and in 2002, with my license in hand, we incorporated as McCarthy LePage Architects, PC. We knew from day one that we needed a way to differentiate ourselves from the many other local firms.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Celebrating 7 Years Serving Small Firm Architects. All this month EntreArchitect is celebrating our 7th-anniversary serving small firm architects around the world. Recently we launched our 13th professional peer group at the EntreArchitect Academy Small Group Mastermind. Click here. Click here.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2021

Valuable data that serves a purpose is used as information, which is more structured than data, thus supporting the decision-making process. Furthermore, structuring and connecting information creates knowledge through a system of procedures that use the information to reach a goal. In order to be useful, it needs to be filtered.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. When we launched our architecture firm Fivecat Studio , my wife (and architect business partner) and I structured the firm based on our strengths. Scroll to the bottom for links to posts written by all of my #ArchiTalks friends.

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Archmark

MAY 31, 2020

The Definitive Architecture Firm Marketing Guide. Attract Better Architecture Clients & Projects with Your LinkedIn Profile Part 1: The Definitive Guide to Architecture Firm Marketing on LinkedIn Have your clients or prospects ever made any of the following statements?: “We We are just looking for a set of blueprints.”

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

Learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. LePage and you are listening to EntreArchitect podcast where I speak with inspiring, passionate people who share their knowledge and expertise all to help you build a better busines as a small firm entrepreneur architect.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Like I said in the beginning, how your drawings look is a reflection of the culture of a firm. Xiaosheng Wu Hi bob Your post is great, and I start writing my own blog because of that. Now that we are using Revit, I don’t know why we can’t just as easily dimension to the face to the structural wall just as easily.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

This week, here on the blog, Patti is sharing her knowledge about Benefit Corporations. I have written about the B-Corp in the past, but this article dives deeper and provides you with all you need to know about this new business structure. Please leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts. Footnotes. [1] 1] [link]. [2]

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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. I always ask for feedback.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everything I have learned about succeeding in business as a small firm architect has come to me in two ways; either through trial and error (with lots and lots of error) or through the many dozens of business and “self-help” books that I’ve read over my many years as an architect. by Tom Kelley. read more ].

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

One of the items in that post was the list “ Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm ” which is somewhat biased because I didn’t really represent the benefits to working in a large architectural firm. Democratic Work Ethics Some firms, mine included will tend to have an open space office.

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