If you’re an architect, architecture student, interested in architecture or how architects work then if you’re not following Bob Borson’s blog ‘Life of an architect’ you should. One of my favourite posts on architectural fees (Part 2) gives no nonsense Read More …
The next few posts are going to show my business highlights of 2014. I’m starting with the most important of all: 1. My Clients I have been blessed to have worked with some incredible clients over the last year on Read More …
I am constantly amazed about the requests for about whether I’ll do some work for free and it got me to thinking about what other jobs receive similar requests for do work for free. I guess graphic or web designers Read More …
A very short post. Whilst reading Glenn Murcutt – buildings + projects by Francoise Fromonot a paragraph jumped out at me: “…[he] tells anyone who will listen that he much prefers to carry on doing ‘very small buildings very well’ Read More …
There now follows a public service announcement for architecture students & architects in business… As usual I jumped into a Twitter conversation, this time between @Interiorporn and @andrewdunning This time the conversation was on the sensitive subject of clients and Read More …
How could I have forgotten Rule Number 9. It sounds bloody obvious but… “If you make your building bigger, use more of something e.g tiling or put more expensive things in it then your contractor will charge you more”. Trust Read More …
This is something that arisen very recently and it seems to be an interesting topic for architects (judging by the great response from fellow professionals on a recent tweet): What is the percentage of the architects fee that should be Read More …
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while and (as usual) kicked into action by Bob Borson’ excellent blog Life of an Architect So… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 8 RULES FOR CLIENTS (108KB) You can also download this fact Read More …