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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Invoicing clients, . Managing their clients and employees. Sure, sometimes designing and drawing pretty pictures are part of an Architect’s day, but that’s really just a very small piece of every project. A 2 hour design meeting translated into 11 months of execution and a lot of work for many people. .

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The Best Architect Exam Prep Resources

The Architect's Guide

Project, Planning, & Design (PPD). Project Planning & Design (PPD) is an exam that tests your ability to design sites and buildings. It should be called “Schematic Design.” This exam is five long hours of you applying all of your critical design thinking to show that you can properly design a project.

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ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION (The Internship)

Lines on Paper

The aim is to expose the student to the practical realities of ‘practice’; to learn about dealing with people - consultants, clients and colleagues; to keep deadlines and work in a structured environment for a regular number of hours a day. When put this way, it doesn't sound very interesting or educational at all.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

And these buildings are not only efficient and affordable, they are quite beautiful, retaining the clean lines and dramatic angles that characterize her work for wealthy clients. Her Sustainable Housing Model would allow people to construct a highly modifiable house for as little as $8,000. Gabriela Etchegaray.

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Weaving international work into your architecture career

EntreArchitect

The firms I worked for in Shanghai hired foreign staff to lead the design efforts while relying on local architects to address the codes, regulations, drafting, and rendering tasks. They have a series of programs in place to help American companies find international clients.

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Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

Do you know how to calculate the exact amount that you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? Phase one of the of that project might be, let’s say schematic design and we’re going to say it’s gonna take three months and it’s going to be worth 30 percent.

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Competitions: Design Competition of International Islands and the Future Residence

Bustler

For detailed regulation conditions, please see competition documents – site planning and su file) Design Requirements. The contents of the design shall meet the requirements for the schematic design, including but not limited to architectural function composition, site plan, elevation, renderings, etc.