EntreArchitect

APRIL 25, 2021

Employees joined the Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCal NOMA), a national organization dedicated to the development and advancement of minority architects. Educate, inform, and discuss. CO is proud to have a firm composition of 55% Women, and 44% Minority, out of a total staff of 144.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Together, the five are creating progressive educational and community projects that serve rural and underprivileged areas in Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana. ” Designing across a variety of scales and media, the eighteen person team emphasizes highly collaborative approaches to project development.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 5, 2018

If it’s a development project, what is the marketing strategy to sell it? This allows us to educate future clients on what is important to us, how we work, what we are working on, what we’ve recently completed, what is available, etc. With clients? What was the marketing strategy behind acquiring this project?

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In a recent conversation with a professional colleague who is a small firm practitioner (3 people total), he expressed his frustration with not being able to get to the ‘business of his business’. How To Get To The Business of Your Business. Literally, he cannot afford such mistakes to occur. Track Your Time.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

For years, I planned on owning my own architecture firm. I set a course, completed the proper education, gained the required experience… and then set a deadline to achieve my life’s goal before I turned 35. Setting deadlines not only helps your team complete their work on time, but it sets proper expectations with your clients.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For years architects have been looking for ways to justify their fees and hourly rates to their clients. We need to take the time to understand our clients’ needs and concerns and then educate them about the value-added aspects of our service. Please note that I said service, not services.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 10, 2015

It took us more than five years and a serious commitment to educating ourselves before we acquired the not-so-secret basics of business success. As I look back on the early days at Fivecat Studio , here are the five business fundamentals that I wish I knew before launching my own firm. Learn more about developing a life plan here.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 30, 2016

This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “Back to School”, so I am encouraging my fellow small firm architects to go back to school themselves and learn what they need to know to find the work they want and live a life they’ll love. As small firm architects, how do we get noticed by those prospects? Back to School.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

DON’T GET UPSET BY CLIENTS THAT THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. Educate and show multiple options (divergent thought processes) to open up thinking. Remember that you were educated as an ARCHITECT (not him/her). The Architectural world is way too small. Develop your unique skills and abilities.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 16, 2015

.” For years, I planned on owning my own architecture firm. I set a course, completed the proper education, gained the required experience… and then set a deadline to achieve my life’s goal before I turned 35. When deadlines are not set, our tasks drag on and clients lose confidence. It was never in doubt.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 18, 2013

Without any education in business basics, architects rarely understand the fundamentals of business success. Seven years into owning our own small firm, Annmarie and I decided to make some changes. One of the most important habits I developed during that year is the preparation of a financial schedule.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 17, 2018

So many people call themselves architects: the software developer, the campaign manager, the author, the enterprise strategist – so on and so forth. So why can’t the industry develop into something else? Architects play a vital role in developing technologies which can aid in the reduction of energy wastage. Significance.

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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. Many of us choose to pursue additional education and often work many more years than is required before taking the exam to become a licensed architect.

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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. Have your clients or prospects ever made any of the following statements?: “We Sorry, but it’s true.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 4, 2015

And yet residential architects have a challenging situation when finding new clients: we rarely know who may be thinking about remodeling or building a new residence. This makes it very difficult to find new clients unless they come seeking us out. Do you enjoy working for this type of client? Pick The Right Bait.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 2, 2014

It took us more than five years and a serious commitment to educating ourselves before we acquired the not-so-secret basics of business success. To live the life of your dreams, you need to develop a plan for how to make that life happen. Learn more about developing a life plan here. We were not selling at all.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 15, 2021

There are a myriad ways each of us can impact the profession, serve clients and the public, and design a better built environment. Typically we had 3-4 weeks to develop a concept and create a compelling presentation to send in for review – and immediately jump onto the next competition until we heard back.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When I started, I wasn’t an entry level student worker, I had 3 years’ experience in other architecture offices before this job and I was at the end of my education. In this former job everyone was so disengaged and there was absolutely no benefit in staying there, in fact that office was toxic for my development.

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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. We must find our strengths, develop them with pride and share our knowledge with others.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 12, 2014

Our architectural educations should be viewed more as personal improvement, building our skills and reinforcing our knowledge, and less as a ticket to professional exclusivity. Our endeavor to licensure builds upon what we have achieved from our educations. We have businesses to build, clients to serve and families to feed.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With more than 5,000 subscribers, I have built a strong community of like-minded small firm architects who look forward to my letter and respond in kind with thoughtful communication. This consistency will allow you to stay “top of mind” and will encourage word-of-mouth conversations about your firm. Feature client testimonials.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As small firm residential architects, the most effective and least expensive way to accomplish this process is to start online. Knowing whom you seek to serve, plan a strategy that will introduce your firm to that market. What are the best ways to place your firm in the minds of your potential clients? Who are you?

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The diversity of their output is exemplified by their two most recent A+Awards-recognized projects: The ‘UN’ Opportunity Pavilion in Dubai, a floating canopy that brings to life the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and Trazas de Pontevedra , a landscape intervention that reinterprets ancient Galician-Roman settlements.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 12, 2014

With more than 3,000 subscribers, I have built a strong community of like-minded small firm architects who look forward to my letter and respond in kind with thoughtful communication. This consistency will allow you to stay “top of mind” and will encourage word-of-mouth conversations about your firm. Feature client testimonials.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A great deal of architectural education is about seeing the world through a lens of aesthetic sensibility and how to take what we see and insert strategies that bring balance and harmony. Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 20, 2021

If you’re on the higher end, your client is likely expecting a tonne of value. Develop processes that make teamwork easy. The post How to deliver your next project with fewer delays: We asked the experts appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 24, 2014

DON’T GET UPSET BY CLIENTS THAT THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE. Educate and show multiple options (divergent thought processes) to open up thinking. Remember that you were educated as an ARCHITECT (not him/her). The Architectural world is way too small. Develop your unique skills and abilities.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 21, 2016

With more than 5,000 subscribers, I have built a strong community of like-minded small firm architects who look forward to my letter and respond in kind with thoughtful communication. This consistency will allow you to stay “top of mind” and will encourage word-of-mouth conversations about your firm. Feature client testimonials.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While the practice is historically known for its residential design, its portfolio demonstrates expansive expertise across all manner of typology, broaching commercial, industrial, educational, spiritual and hospitality spaces. The studio’s architectural catalog is defined by crisp, disciplined forms.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of the requirements of becoming a licensed architect is the intern development program which logs on the job training under certain tasks which is then signed off by a licensed architect. In this former job everyone was so disengaged and there was absolutely no benefit in staying there, in fact that office was toxic for my development.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 26, 2014

We’re spending only what needs to be spent to build a stronger firm… and much sacrifice remains. Small Firm Architects Are Saying Good Bye to the AIA. I volunteered to design, develop and launch the chapter’s first website long before many members fully understood the importance of having an online presence.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

1 – Starting at the academic level, the architecture schools’ curriculum of the 21st century need to include collaboration with contractors, developers and business owners. 2 – After graduation, the newly minted architectural intern should enter a dedicated network of architecture firms. No exceptions. LEED AP BD+C.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 3, 2015

It just might save your projects, your firm and your livelihood. It may simultaneously help your client to obtain a better house and assist the contractor in doing a better job. How many of your clients happen to be attorneys? What could happen to your clients, in terms of their Health, Safety & Welfare (HS&W)?

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 7, 2013

It wasn’t a formal written plan, but I knew from the start what I needed to do before I was ready to take on my own clients. Following graduation, I started at a small firm located about 20 miles west of New York City. The firm had recently completed a project converting an old textile mill into residential lofts.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 5, 2016

A ‘Day Release’ is given for Further Education. Essentially, ‘Dot-Com Internet Brokers’ act as intermediaries and are paid a Commission from a Client. Clients’ advertise Work and ‘Contractors’ bid for it, in terms of Capability and Price. However, ‘Price’ is usually the main attraction for ‘Clients.’ SAMANIEGOMORGAN.

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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. 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.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 31, 2017

It met all our requirements; a unique building close to home, 1000 square feet and located in a bustling business district central to all our potential clients. We had big plans and we knew that we would recover the investment very quickly, as clients would soon start knocking on our new front door. We called it Survival Mode.

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