EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

As small firm architects, we are all working so hard to get everything done. Between the many hours we dedicate to building our firms and the time we spend building strong relationships at home, there are not many minutes left to do anything else. Email Management for Architects. Delegate it. Delete it.”.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

We must protect ourselves, our firms and our families from the risk of legal action. It is painful though to look at the books each year and see the cost of insurance at the top of the list. Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 18, 2017

For all professional design firms there are two different, yet interrelated levels of profitability – a firm’s overall profitability and the profitability of each completed project. Historically, the profitability of professional design firms is, on average, in the range of 8-12%. The firm’s culture (or lack of one.).

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a small firm architect running a virtual studio , I am wearing many hats these days. I currently hold the positions of CEO, COO, CFO, President, Director of Architectural Services, Architect, Project Manager, Office Manager, Book Keeper, Receptionist and Custodian… and that’s just at work.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

About 20 small firm architects posted their response and the answers were mixed, but certainly leaning toward the casual. Gerber in his book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. What do you wear when meeting with clients?”. That was not a surprise to me.

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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. A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects. You can read the entire original 2013 blog series here. Making Money is Good.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2016

Every architect has a dream of having their work published in books and magazines. The post How To Get Published as a Small Firm Architect appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. For some it’s a right of passage – a testament to hard work and years of focus.

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Architizer

JANUARY 11, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Order your copy today.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation. Since we launched our firm in 1999, most every prospective client I meet asks if Fivecat Studio offers construction services. must earn a profit.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Architizer's A+Awards Best Firm categories allow design firms of all sizes to showcase their practice and vie for the title of “World’s Best Architecture Firm”. Start an A+Firm Award Application today. . As winners of the Best Firm Categories , each office was judged based on the strength of their portfolios.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 24, 2014

On April 8, 1999, I discovered a book that changed the way I view business; a book that helped me to realize that running a successful architecture firm required so much more than designing great architecture. It is the book that inspired me to begin to work “on my business, rather than in my business.”

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

After responding to a hopeful architect on Dwell.com I decided to flesh out my answer and include more books. Naturally there is some overlap and some of these books could fit in multiple headings, this is architecture after all. Covey – This is a universally loved book by people in every field. It is no surprise why.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 25, 2015

For architects, especially those in small firms, nothing has changed much in the past 40 years. While most businesses have moved forward with modern business practices in management and human resources, the small firm is left behind and is having problems maintaining a strong productive team. It Begins On the First Day.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 3, 2016

As we move into a new month, we are shifting our focus to a new category of small firm success. ” The engine driving the success of every small firm is our network of operational systems. The engine driving the success of every small firm is our network of operational systems.

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Architizer

JULY 1, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Specializing in ecological and sustainable construction, the firm emphasizes wellness and the human and social character of environments.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 12, 2022

1 Yet, the percentage of women who obtained their architect license, achieve upper management positions, become partners and own architectural firms have not increased as men’s percentages have. Gloria is the founder and CEO of Glow Architects , an architecture firm based in Tampa, Florida. More about Gloria Kloter.

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Archmark

MARCH 29, 2019

How to make marketing work for your architecture firm. Recently, we asked Richard Marshall, Principal with Perkins+Will , about the importance of marketing for small firms, “The best organizations view marketing as just as important a skill set as design. . “ What makes your firm better or different than your competitors?

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Young Architect

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

What it’s like to work in a small firm. This one I’m going to lean on my military books. It’s a book about taking ownership of yourself. The book that changed everything for Travis . “A A dot sketch book that I use as a planner, sketchbook. What architecture school was like for Travis.

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Young Architect

MARCH 14, 2022

After wrapping up his musical career, he started his career in Architecture at a small firm. These books are most reflective of the Architecture I do today. The books that changed everything for Brad . “My I keep it right on top of my sketch book!” What Brad knows today that he didn’t know then. My tape measure.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 19, 2016

Wintner, AIA, Emeritus, an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. To learn more about Steve and his firm Management Consulting Services, visit his website at ManagementConsultingServices.com. Respectfully, Steve L. Wintner, AIA Emeritus.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If there were good, recent books on passing a design firm’s ownership from founders to successors (there aren’t), it sounds as if Cheryl Barton, FASLA, and Kate Orff, FASLA, would have had little use for them. It’s neither a merger nor an acquisition. It’s our invention,” Barton said in June on a joint call with Orff.

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Architizer

MAY 7, 2024

Crafting a well-defined business strategy is crucial for the success of any business, architecture firms included, but according to the most recent AIA Business Survey Report in 2022, only 26% of small firms, 40% of medium-sized firms, and 71% of large firms have one written down. So, where do you start?

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 15, 2017

Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan series of books says, “The greatest value in creating a business plan is not the final document. As our firm grows and evolves, priorities change, markets shift, economies collapse. Question: Do you have a written business plan for your architecture firm? Start with just one page.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

Almost 40 tips for Starting an Architecture Firm. After obtaining my license as an Architect in New York, I brainstormed several long term goals and decided to start a personal blog, develop design projects, and learn everything that I could about starting an architecture firm.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Understanding business fundamentals and building systems that will lead to a healthy profitable firm is critical. As small firm architects, we have so many responsibilities. Soon after launching my own small residential architecture firm, I was faced with the reality of running a small business.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I have almost always worked in small firms – except for that one time when I didn’t, which wasn’t a bad year but it cemented in my mind that my skill set is better suited for a small architectural firm. Here are my Top 5 Reasons to work in a Small Architectural Firm: 1.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 22, 2022

When I worked with her, Beth was a project manager at a small civil engineering firm. Her mountain was to become a principal in the firm, but that was probably seven years off. Beth’s goals and the company goals were the same: focus on business development to be a firm owner. In three years, she wanted to be an associate.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In a recent conversation with a professional colleague who is a small firm practitioner (3 people total), he expressed his frustration with not being able to get to the ‘business of his business’. The ‘project’ is in its ‘beta’ testing stage at this time, in the anticipation of having it ready to ‘roll-out’ at the start of 2018.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 22, 2017

Wintner, AIA, Emeritus , an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. How To Fix Your Profitability Problem as a Small Firm Architect (blog). Why Architects Are NOT Properly Prepared to Own and Operate an Architecture Firm (blog).

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EntreArchitect

JULY 4, 2015

Marketing a residential architecture firm is perhaps different than marketing any other kind of professional service or product in the world. Let’s relate this back to marketing a residential architecture firm. Explaining that would take an entire book. This is a guest post by Enoch Sears from Business of Architecture.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 22, 2019

June Jewell, a professional colleague of mine, has written an excellent book, Find the Lost Dollars: 6 Steps to Increasing Profits in Architecture, Engineering and Environmental Firms , that encourages firm leaders to enhance the best practices of their firm and with it, the profitability of every project.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 13, 2018

It was a fantastic discussion about how SALA was founded and the journey to where Dale finds himself today as a principal at the firm, a teacher and an author of several books published by Taunton Press. Here are 4 strategies that SALA Architects has used to grow their residential architecture firm: Write.

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EntreArchitect

AUGUST 4, 2014

As I am preparing for my week away, I ordered two books that have been on my Amazon wish list for a while. I’ve read most of what Seth Godin has written, but Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is a quick little book that has not yet graced my night table. A third book has been waiting in my cue over at Audible.com for weeks now.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It’s our favorite conference of the year, where we have the opportunity to connect with fellow small firm residential architects from around the country. Just before we left town, I downloaded the new book written by my friend, Evan Troxel of Archispeak Podcast. may be fighting you every step of the way.

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It was a fantastic discussion about how SALA was founded and the journey to where Dale finds himself today as a principal at the firm, a teacher and an author of several books published by Taunton Press. Here are 4 strategies that SALA Architects has used to grow their residential architecture firm: Write.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 31, 2017

The illusion of an “established architecture firm” gave way to our reality each time a calling prospect heard the the crying baby in the background. We learned to accommodate our new “partner” and established routines to allow us to keep the firm and our family as separate as they could be within 900 square feet. It’s not true.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 27, 2018

Every week, throughout the EntreArchitect Community, I hear or read questions from small firm architects struggling to find the success they seek. Each and every repetitive task performed within our firms should be documented and managed using a Standard Operating Procedure. Firm Identity. Instructions.

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