EntreArchitect

MARCH 13, 2017

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. How can we use virtual reality tools to allow our clients a visual and aural experience inside our designs? When presenting your next set of schematic designs, come prepared with a basket of freshly baked cookies.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 11, 2016

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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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 3, 2016

I typically hate writing the first post of a new year, it feels a little like that first sketch in the schematic design process – you know it isn’t going to be any good but you have to start somewhere; you’re just feeling things out a bit wondering where you want to take things.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Originally published in 2013 as Part 4 of the original EntreArchitect Academy Blog Series, this final article of our month dedicated to Business Development shares my firm’s simple sales system. You can read the entire original 2013 blog series here. So share this blog with every architect you know!). Making Money is Good.

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Life of an Architect

JULY 27, 2014

Doug and I have formed a professional architect-to-architect relationship since I started writing my blog and we have routinely exchanged emails over the years discussing a myriad of subjects. For years I have done all my initial design efforts for individual clients in face to face, highly participatory meeting with the owners.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2013

I ask them again to state their expected budget as part of my Pre-Design Client Questionnaire to confirm their expectations in writing. We then prepare Schematic Designs based on those expectations. When we present our Schematic Designs we prepare rough, cost per square foot, cost estimates attached to each scheme.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 27, 2013

So share this blog with every architect you know!). When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. I’ve written about this program before, including in the introductory post to this Entrepreneur Architect Academy blog series. Are you making enough to simply pay the bills?

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

This was the project that I used when talking about sketching during schematic design. There are a few other architects who maintain blogs who were given todays topic “A Day in the Life of …” with very loose instructions as to what they are to talk about. This was the 4th post in a series of posts called “ArchiTalks”.

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A Better Built Environment

MARCH 22, 2021

I participated in the design of some of projects while my partners and our employees executed most of the architecture work beyond schematic design. I focused on running the business, leading the marketing and business development efforts, sales, finances, and resource management. I’m now at a crossroads.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 10, 2013

Then we get started and prepare our designs. Following an approval of Schematic Design, we move into Design Development and again we play the game. It gives us the chance to correct the fallacies engrained in their minds by HGTV and ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Provide Them with the Tools They Need.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I built my network by starting a blog where I interviewed architects around Berlin and offered to publish their work. It also made use of the training we actually receive in architectural school: developing schematic design ideas and presenting our concepts with compelling graphics and storytelling.

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Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

One of the chief joys of reading architecture blogs like this one is imagining yourself inhabiting fantastical, otherworldly houses. As Director of Interior Architecture, Ashley is responsible for managing hospitality projects through all phases of design. ” Left: Vault House, Oxnard, Calif.; Sharon Johnston.

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Fig 18: Resident of the the Red Shed Village in Baltimore: working and designing with and for the unhoused.

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