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Better Project Management for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

Our complete Pre-Design Client Questionnaire template is included with your purchase of our Foundations: Business Forms and Checklists for Architects package. It’s the document that we use at my firm to gather much of this important information from our clients. Always provide Construction Administration. Listen carefully.

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Unconventionally Framed: When to Enlist the Expertise of a Structural Engineer

EntreArchitect

The International Residential Code (IRC) offers prescriptive design measures for basic foundation walls and footings. Small, punched window openings allow for long, rigid shearwalls. I get energized by engineering, construction job sites, business, and living as a fully integrated human being.

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It’s YOUR EntreArchitect

EntreArchitect

That was the day when I relaunched my personal blog Entrepreneur Architect with it’s new domain EntreArchtect.com, posted my first podcast episode and promised you, the small firm architect, that I would dedicate my time, my money and my efforts to building this platform into an influential force in the profession.

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Christiana Karagiorgi Architects Reinterpret the Traditional Mediterranean Way of Living

Architizer

It enhances the vision of returning to the roots of being – the tradition and identity of living, the relation to surroundings and nature and the creation of a new materiality based on what is affordable and simple to be constructed. My only concern is to achieve a construction result that can be even better than representation.

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Monumental Design: 10 Global Practices Redefining Cultural Architecture

Architizer

The firms redefining cultural architecture are boldly looking to the future of design. Whether expanding the formal, spatial or experiential potential of architecture, they each implement new ideas on construction and craft, as well as human connection. Kéré Architecture.

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Three Lists to Freedom

EntreArchitect

We are rapidly achieving our mission of becoming an influential force in the profession for small firm architects. My residential architecture firm Fivecat Studio is busy as well, with 8 active projects in every phase of design and construction. Stay tuned for some very exciting news!). Its Time to Grow.

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Neighborhood Character [13]

A Better Built Environment

Construction Cost Breakdown and Partial Industrialization A great post on another Newsletter I subscribe to called Construction Physics written by Brian Potter. Flooring, roofing, foundations, framing, painting, electrical - they all make up the same proportional cost of a home today as they did in 1947. Let’s do this!

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