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

Apr 25 2017

Sharing Our Love for Architecture with the Next Generation

Sharing Architecture With Kids If you’re anything like me, my guess is that you loved your time in architecture school. What’s not to love? You get to use your talents and develop it with loose abandon, explore your interests and learn all about design and architecture – one of the coolest fields in the world. […]

Apr 18 2017

How To Fix Your Profitability Problem as a Small Firm Architect

Why Architects Miss Their Profitability Targets 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%. While many firms achieve profitability exceeding 12%, the majority […]

Apr 11 2017

My 12 Rules for Landing Your First Job in Architecture

Being Unique Got Me Noticed In A Very Noisy World I graduated from Roger Williams University School of Architecture in 1993. The nation was slowly recovering from a recession and architects were not eagerly seeking help from intern architects. Throughout the winter before graduating, I wrote over 100 cover letters and mailed them with my standard […]

Apr 04 2017

White Windows

Originally posted on February 22, 2007, this was the seventh entry on the site and was the first full length article I shared. The lessons presented then are just as relevant today. Be honest, have integrity and any error, omission or mistake you may experience will always work out. My First Assignment Many years ago, […]

Mar 28 2017

Match Your Market To Communicate the Value of an Architect

How To Communicate the Value of an Architect I speak with or communicate online with small firm architects almost every day. I want to know with what members of our small firm community are struggling, so that we at EntreArchitect might develop resources to help you build a better business. I send an email to […]

Mar 21 2017

AIA Antitrust and Establishing Fees for Small Firm Architects

Fees for Small Firm Architects We’re a disgruntled bunch of professionals. There are hundreds of articles, forums, blog posts and comments discussing how we architects are not paid enough and how our clients don’t understand what we do. The most popular discussions at the EntreArchitect Facebook Group are always those where we discuss the “forbidden fruit” of […]