Mark R. LePage, Author at EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects Page

Jul 05 2017

How To Build a Powerful Brand in Architecture

When Annmarie and I launched Fivecat Studio in 1999, we knew that we wanted to give our firm a unique identity. Every other firm in the region was named for their founders. Another “Smith and Smith Architects” was not what we wanted to be. (No offense to any Smith and Smiths out there.) Our plans were to […]

Jun 27 2017

10 Simple Steps To Develop a Lasting New Habit

How To Establish a New Habit In the back of your mind, every day, there is a goal that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s a new strategy, a new business process or a personal change in your life; it sits back there, day after day, scratching at the door, wanting to be let out. […]

Jun 20 2017

5 Secrets To My Success as an Entrepreneur Architect

My Secrets To Success as an Architect My wife and I launched our architecture firm, Fivecat Studio, in 1999. We were 29 years old; young, ambitious and a little crazy. We started with no money and no clients. One good lead and some help from a few local architect friends gave us the courage to […]

Jun 13 2017

Influence

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn… The people who have held the greatest influence on my professional success have been the founders of these five companies. The social internet has forever changed the world and our place upon it. My success as an architect and an entrepreneur has been the direct result of the stories told, […]

Jun 06 2017

The 14 Books Every Future Architect Should Read

Are you looking to get a degree in architecture? Or have you recently graduated and feeling the disassociation from studio life (all about you and your ideas) and starting at the bottom of work life? Once in a while I get questions from people like you asking for advice and recommended reading. After responding to […]

May 30 2017

Using Our Sketching Skills To Persuade and Convince

Sketching The Hopes and Dreams of My Future When I was 12 years old, I persuaded my father to allow me to convert a section of our home’s unfinished attic into my bedroom. Up to that point in my life my only experience with actual construction was observing my father and his friends build a […]