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A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

Successful businesses must perform certain tasks and techniques consistently in order to be successful. When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. If they want to hire us, they’ll send us a check with a signed contract, right? One of those tasks is “sales” No sales.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. to live among the cherry blossoms and historical monuments. CĂ©line Semaan.

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Letters of an Architect: Lessons from my Best Projects

Community Architect

There was "design assist" for the facades and an envelope consultant who did quality control of our detailing. Ah yes, and all that very contemporary sounding stuff was "fast tracked" in spite of production via the age old techniques of T-squares, ink on vellum and freehand renderings. Just the principals and the hired architects.

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