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How to Find an Architect

Life of an Architect

They don’t all have blogs like mine where you can get a pretty good feeling for who I am and how I work. What are the steps in the design process? If someone tells you that you get three schematic design meetings, and if any more are required, there would be additional design fees, I would start asking some other questions.

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Design in a Day

Life of an Architect

I have asked him to guest write on my site several times without success, but I finally had a topic that suited him … Schematic Design and “Design in a Day” Douglas Burke (aka: architectrunnerguy) Lives in Annapolis, MD. I don’t worry about a contract at this point.

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Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

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. So there might be some differences in terms of providing architectural services, but let’s say a fee of $100,000. So 30, $30,000.