EntreArchitect Blog - Success in Architecture, Leadership and Life as a Small Firm Architect

Dec 15 2015

How To Start an Architecture Firm Without a Portfolio

Anyone who has started their own architecture firm from scratch knows this dilemma well. We are full of enthusiasm, full of ideas, fully prepared. We quit our job (or working throughout the night on the side). We planned our launch and created a new website to share our ideas with the world… but we have […]

Dec 07 2015

How to Earn (or Win) an Extra $10,000 in 2016

Competitions are a integral part of the architecture experience. Since architecture school and throughout our careers, design competitions have provided a vehicle for architects to promote our talents and showcase our skills. Several architects have built their firms around the results of competitions, allowing them to leapfrog years of marketing strategies, accelerating their brands and […]

Dec 01 2015

A Holiday Challenge: Full Media Blackout

The holidays are a beautiful time of year. We are invited to slow down and spend time with family and friends. Stories of love and giving are everywhere we look. We are reminded at this time that every day throughout the year, we are blessed. But, as we enter the final month of the year […]

Nov 24 2015

From My Table to Yours

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. Each month, dozens of architect bloggers publish a post on a specific topic simultaneously on the same date. This is a bonus edition of #ArchiTalks, with a Thanksgiving theme, “From An Architect’s Table”, where each architect blogger will share a favorite holiday recipe. […]

Nov 16 2015

What Not To Wear (As a Small Firm Architect)

Several times each week, I post a question to the EntreArchitect™ Facebook Group and we have a discussion among the 500+ group members. This past week, I posed the question, “Formal? Casual? Or something in between? What do you wear when meeting with clients?” We always have a big response and this question was no […]

Nov 09 2015

Our First Architecture Project [#ArchiTalks]

This post is my contribution to an international blog series called #ArchiTalks. Each month, dozens of architect bloggers publish a post on a specific topic simultaneously on the same date. Scroll to the bottom for links to posts written by all of my #ArchiTalks friends. This month, the #ArchiTalks topic is “My First Project”, so I decided […]