EntreArchitect

APRIL 13, 2025

Week after week, Ive had the privilege of sitting down with inspiring guestsarchitects, business leaders, authors, and creativeswho generously share their knowledge with our community of small firm architects. The most successful small firm architects I know are the ones who learned how to move through fearnot avoid it.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 11, 2025

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way architects manage information is becoming just as critical as the designs they create. For small firm architects, this approach is a reminder that working closely with contractors from the outset of a project can result in better outcomes for all parties involved.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Overwhelm : An overload of sensory and informational input, leading to paralysis. Taking Action Today Morgan’s advice to small firm architects is simple yet profound: take action. Emotional Burnout : Feelings of cynicism, detachment, and negativity. It’s not okay,” Morgan asserts, “and it doesn’t have to be this way.”

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EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

By presenting facts, offering insights, and highlighting the human element of architectural work, architects can help shape a more informed public dialogue about the built environment. For more information about Going Green and the Gābl Media All Access series, visit lynes.s tudio/podcast and gablmedia.com/members.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Every project we perform as professionals must be commenced with a signed written agreement, but for small firm architects working with inexperienced clients, this is a critical moment. 5 Rules For Developing Contract Documents for Small Firm Architects. It’s your proposal. Comprehensive is critical. Don’t go it alone.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 30, 2020

As small firm architecture business owners, many of us may benefit from this historic legislation. Additional COVID-19 information and resources for small firm architects. We will continue to provide information to the EntreArchitect community as it becomes available. Stay healthy. lovelearnshare.

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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 26, 2014

I know this as fact, because I track my firm’s Prospect to Project Ratio. Today, I am sharing typically protected information; the data to determine the Prospect to Project Ratio for Fivecat Studio. Don’t be deceived by the information I am presenting though. The things you will learn from this data will be transformative.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 23, 2017

There’s absolutely nothing creative about it and yet it is crucial to the growth of all design firms. To have a profitable business you must make well informed business decisions. To make well informed decisions you need to have financial clarity. They provide the information you need to thrive. Consider the following.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 14, 2016

As small firm architects, we are responsible for so many different roles and responsibilities. In this post, I am sharing 6 tools that I have chosen and currently use to automate my own small firm. 6 Digital Tools to Automate an Architecture Firm. ScheduleOnce for coordinating my calendar.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The blog is still one of the most effective tools a small firm architect can use to foster community. Small firm architects are busy people. I have learned how to quickly craft articles that keep my community informed, entertained and coming back week after week. The Power of Blogging for Architects.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

Recruitment Strategies for Small Firm Architects. Recruiting new employees is one of the most important things a professional services firm can do to be sustainable. All of these organizational systems should be defined before bringing on a new employee, as they are the first introduction to a firm’s culture and structure.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 24, 2018

Every project we perform as professionals must be commenced with a signed written agreement, but for small firm architects working with inexperienced clients, this is a critical moment. 5 Rules For Developing Contract Documents for Small Firm Architects. It’s your proposal. Comprehensive is critical. Don’t go it alone.

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EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it. If our business systems failed and the firm was required to defend itself without a policy, we certainly would have been crushed by the costs involved in such a legal action.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

Before we grab the roll of trace and start sketching with the Sharpie, we gather as much information about the users of our buildings as possible. It’s the document that we use at my firm to gather much of this important information from our clients. Manage expectations and keep them informed. Listen carefully.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 9, 2022

I recently happened to read two especially thought-provoking pieces online about the future of BIM (Building Information Modeling). He posits the future of BIM will not be BIM at all but rather a new technology— Building Information Optimization. The problem is attaining this mastery is presently beyond the reach of most small firms.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 3, 2018

This is the transcript from EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 226, Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects. If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. Start Transcript. LePage: . My name is Mark R.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects. I collect their contact information, including home, office and mobile telephone numbers, email addresses, postal address of the potential project and the year the home was built. We need to make some changes. We hit a wall. I start with asking their name and confirm its spelling.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2016

For many of us small firm architects, this sounds a bit scary. If scheduled well in advance, communicated well throughout our our firms and project teams, and expectations are well managed before, during and after, shutting down for a week or two is not impossible. When and to whom will that information will be transmitted?

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation. During the Design Development Phase of each project, we provide our clients with a “shopping list” and contact information to suppliers and sales people we know, like and trust. Forget about profit.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 30, 2021

Empowering staff with this information helps them understand the business of architecture, while it also creates an additional safeguard so that monitoring the budget doesn’t fall through the cracks when you are busy. She joined Studio Services Bookkeeping as an Account Specialist in January 2020.

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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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Architizer

JANUARY 2, 2024

For the first time at the 11th A+Awards , the most outstanding super-small practices were recognized in the Best X-Small Firm category, designed for studios of between one and five employees. The firm’s ethos is highly collaborative, working closely with clients and craftspeople to deliver exceptional, informed structures.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With the platform, Brockstedt hopes to make more information available to solo practitioners and small firms, who she notes are usually at a disadvantage in not having access to the in-house sustainability experts and sophisticated custom software that large firms have.

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2023

Judged on the strength of their portfolios, the following trailblazing practices, each with 10 or fewer employees, were all recognized in the Best Small Firm category of the 10 th Annual A+Awards. While they may be small in number, their impact on the global landscape is mighty.

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EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Empowering architects to better serve the world with more than 681,000 total downloads in 2021, the EntreArchitect Podcast has grown to serve small firm architects from every corner of the planet. In this episode, we talk about their work as residential builders and share how other small firm architects can do it too.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In the world of architecture, knowledge is more than just powerit’s the lifeblood of a firms success. Its the way architects access information, collaborate on ideas, and refine their processes. It’s about connecting people, processes, and information in a way that maximizes a firms collective intelligence.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There are also Firm Award categories dedicated to firms of all sizes and specializations: Best Extra Small Firm, Best Small Firm, Best Medium Firm and Best Large Firm for exceptional architecture firms across all size categories ( click here to discover which your firm is eligible for).

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 9, 2014

Starting from Site Appraisal and the Brief, architects and designers will work together on appropriating information into something more understandable to all, which translates to pie charts, mapping, options of massing models on a site, shadow/solar irradiation studies, views and so on. ” Your is a possessive word.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Utilizing pioneering design and construction methods, its work is informed by each site’s unique cultural and geographic qualities. Meanwhile, their BONA INTERNATIONAL CINEMA AT XIAN JOY CITY project responds to its ancient locale, channeling the lines of historic Chinese architecture to inform striking, abstract tableaus.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As my team and I consider new or improved ways of sharing knowledge to small firm entrepreneur architects throughout 2018, I produced this video for my YouTube channel. Or would rather dive in deep to longer, more developed information? Visit Slack.com for more information. Slack for Architects.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The vernal pools are “climate-informative leftovers from earlier geologic eras, and they’re vanishing,” she said. Any early notions Orff held of having a boutique office, she said, met the limits that a small firm is likely to find in winning large infrastructure projects. Ninety percent of them are gone in California.”.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 23, 2014

The information gathered from the Entrepreneur Architect Business Trends Survey is informative, interesting, somewhat surprising and at times disturbing. What type of fee structure small firm architects are using? What is the range of construction cost for small firm architects? Do you want to know….

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Celebrating 7 Years Serving Small Firm Architects. All this month EntreArchitect is celebrating our 7th-anniversary serving small firm architects around the world. I promised to build an online platform to provide the information, business resources and training that was so lacking in our profession at the time.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Money may not buy you happiness, but running an architecture firm that works most certainly will. Last week, I presented a 60 minute webinar where I shared the step by step process of developing a profit plan for a small firm. I’ve given you the information you need. I know, because it changed everything for me.

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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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EntreArchitect

JANUARY 5, 2016

The all-new EntreArchitect is built exclusively for you; the small firm entrepreneur architect. We’ve developed a comprehensive content calendar for the entire year, which will allow us to systematically improve our firms, step by step. I’m sure you are noticing a few changes around here. Welcome to the All-New EntreArchitect.

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