EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Most of us went to architecture school to design buildings, not to become salespeople. But when architects position themselves as experts, they transform the entire client relationship dynamic. The Qualifying Conversation: Finding the Right Clients This is where architects determine client fit.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From grueling all-nighters in architecture school to managing relentless client demands, architects have historically worn their stress as a badge of honor. Stress and burnout have long been considered inevitable parts of an architect’s journey.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 23, 2022

Real clients and genuine issues are in play in all projects architects undertake, so exposure to that aspect of design can be revealing. I may have graduated from architecture school decades ago, but I will always remain a student of architecture.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Before I enrolled in architecture school in the late summer of 1991 (has it been 32 years?), As architecture schools greet new students this fall, I thought it would be fun to revisit that list of “must-haves” after having practiced architecture for 30 years. You'll use a lot of this in architecture school.

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The Aspiring Architect

MAY 8, 2017

Dear Client, I have just one friendly piece of advice I’d like to offer to you. Please check out more blogs on the topic of “advice for clients” in the links below: Marica McKeel – Studio MM (@ArchitectMM). Advice for ALL Clients. advice to clients. ArchiTalks: Advice for Clients.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2025

Got a project thats too contemporary for your client? Positioned at the intersection between the arts, humanities and sciences, architecture is nowadays viewed as a discipline that requires rigorous training and a lengthy academic education to become a practicing architect. Got a project thats too contemporary for your client?

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 16, 2025

You say no to a misaligned client. Not with clients. Thats the skill no one teaches us in architecture school. Your clients respond to your clarity with greater trust and respect. But the truth is, thats not always how it goes. Sometimes, the other side of fear is quiet. You finally raise your rates. But business?

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 25, 2025

Listen to the full episode at EntreArchitect.com/600 From Frustration to Fulfillment: Sherry’s Origin Story Like many of us, Sherry left architecture school brimming with passion. With encouragement from her CSI network, she launched her consulting business and began building a client base. They gave me clients.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

One of the most common themes of these emails is that architecture school is nothing like working in the real world. My parents thought I should go into a different major, but I really wanted to be an architect, so I went to architecture school. I was still in architecture school as everyone else graduated.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A new multifamily building in New Haven by students at Yale’s architecture school provides relief for an underpaid workforce—and their community. A housing experiment is unfolding in New Haven. They also included wider hallways to accommodate strollers and ample natural light from large windows and skylights.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Melbourne designer David Noordhoff had already established a rhythm with clients James and Zara McGuffie long before he designed their home. Noordhoff and James had been the drummer and guitarist in a successful indie rock band, Kilns , before Noordhoff went off to architecture school.

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Architizer

AUGUST 7, 2024

These models were not only essential design aids but also powerful communication tools, enabling architects and clients to visualize and interact with proposed spaces. Clients often find physical models more engaging than renderings and drawings, as they can touch, examine and better understand the design.

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Young Architect

MAY 14, 2022

Invoicing clients, . Managing their clients and employees. Studying design from at one of the many great architecture programs is, in my (admittedly, biased) opinion, one of the greatest educations a person could get as well as an amazing industry to work in. Architecture School. Working on construction drawings.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I just need to tack up my shingle, design great buildings and clients will come knocking. Maybe… but whether clients come knocking or not, its not so simple to keep them knocking. The post Things I Didn’t Learn at Architecture School (But Need to Know): How do I start and keep a business alive? The solution?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The pair met after architecture school in the late 1970s as employees in the office of American architect O'Neil Ford , whose work attracted both men for its "regional modernism". "W W hen we both got out of architecture school in the late 70s, post-modernism was what was going on," Flato told Dezeen.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Home to iconic landmarks such as Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center, Los Angeles’ architecture has become greatly influenced by the entertainment industry. Starting from its architectural schools, the city promotes alternative design practices. And that’s the way we like it.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 19, 2014

To my bewilderment, when I arrived, Michael waited a whole ten minutes before assigning me the task of driving out, by myself, to meet a new client at her house and conduct an exhaustive series of measurements from which I would generate as-built drawings in Revit.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I want to go to architecture school but I don’t really enjoy making models–the process is quite frustrating for me… should all aspiring architects be passionate about model making? We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime! link] Bob Borson no.

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Deezen

JUNE 29, 2022

Earlier this year, employees of New York firm SHoP formed the US's first union of architecture workers in 70 years alleging "endless overtime and deadlines", while two faculty members at the Sci-Arc architecture school were placed on administrative leave after suggesting that architecture students should work long hours for low pay.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” If you ask most recent architecture school graduates “just how different is the real world from college?” The average time it takes for most applicants to complete the Intern Development Program (according to the 2007 Internship and Career Survey) and pass the Architectural Registration exam is 6.4

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It incubates in architecture school, spreads through architecture companies and slowly infects your entire life. Straight out of architecture school, we’re conditioned to believe it’s better to work for peanuts at a Starchitecture firm than to find a role that will help us pay off our student loans. Because it is.

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Dwell

AUGUST 28, 2023

The founders, Alexis and Jemuel, met in architecture school and saw a clear problem: Traditional homebuilding was costly, time consuming, and unpredictable," says Alden Kramer, a business development specialist at the brand. "At Before we sign a contract with our clients, we lock in the pricing up front.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 18, 2015

Evan Troxel, Architect The architecture school I went to required Trigonometry to get my degree. I took it in high school and loved it; it was pretty easy for me as I always did very well in all of my math classes. There are few stronger parallels to all the the variables in the Builder-Architect-Client dynamic.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

When I first graduated from architecture school – and for the next few jobs afterwards – I truly felt that all I needed to get a terrific job was a diploma from an awesome college ( check ) and a kick-ass portfolio ( double check ) and I could get a job anywhere I wanted.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

All that notwithstanding, this is an important article for architecture students and their parents to read. It talks about the process – maybe even the realization – of what it takes to get through architecture school. If you’re a client – I’m here to tell you that you want it.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2023

Last week the century-old squabble between modernism and historicism raised its tired old head once again after a UK government minister backed a report advocating a more "tradition"-friendly new architecture school. Wherever possible they avoided using heat from scarce, slow-growing, expensive firewood.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

per cent gap last year, private architecture school the Architectural Association (AA) currently has no median gender pay gap – meaning the average middle-ranking woman staff member earns the same as the average middle-ranking man. The Royal Institute of British Architects reported a 9.3 per cent in 2022/23. Having reported a 2.3

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. What if you viewed your junior staff as one day they might be your future client? That’s a scary thought.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In a few short years, I evolved from being a junior architecture staff working for everyone else to a licensed architect with interns and junior staff suddenly reporting to me. Your Interns Could Be Your Future Clients. What if you viewed your junior staff as one day they might be your future client? That’s a scary thought.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Architectural schools are often staffed with educators who are ill at ease actually practicing in the “real world”. They find refuge in academia with its impressionable young students eager to learn what they have to say (since their prospective clients were not interested).

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

Surviving Architectural School Despite the urban legends that you’ve heard about that person who stayed awake for 6 straight days to finish his project, Architecture school is terrific. Here are a few tips that can help make your experience in architecture studio that much better and more rewarding.

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Deezen

JULY 1, 2022

Also featured is a cookery school that teaches historic methods of food preservation and a jewellery workshop, in which visitors can upcycle beer bottles into wearable hand-crafted pieces. School: University for the Creative Arts. Course: BA (Hons) Interior Architecture. Course: BA (Hons) Interior Architecture.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

This is because we are on the edge of a complete flip in how every service industry functions, including medicine, law, and architecture. Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Emanuel School Science Facility, Battersea Rise – Building Information. Type of project: Independent school campus. Client: Emanuel School. Design Engine are a multi-award-winning architecture practice founded in 2000 with studios in Winchester, London and Exeter. Location: Battersea Rise, London.

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30X40 Design Workshop

MAY 23, 2022

Would you be surprised to learn that most architects aren't taught how to assemble a set of construction drawings in architecture school? They also naturally select for a team of skilled craftspeople that align with the standards of care our clients expect in a finished home. I certainly was.

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2023

"We challenge students to create imaginative responses to spatial problems, which cut across architectural aspects of place, cultural and built heritage and recognise the design-related needs and identity of clients. The Bachelor of Architecture at ATU Sligo is Ireland's newest architecture programme.

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