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Mar 17 2010

Will Lower Fees Save Your Firm?

Have you reduced your fees, with the intent of obtaining more work? The economy dumps and projects vanish. In reaction, the architect drops her fees. Revenues plummet and the firm shutters its shop. Sound familiar? Do you fall somewhere in that scenario? I hope not. Reduced fees will not save your practice. It will kill […]

Mar 09 2010

Clients…by Michael Bierut of Pentagram

A blogging friend, Katie Hutchison, sent me a link to a recent talk by Michael Bierut, a partner at Pentagram. Part of the CreativeMornings lecture series organized by Tina Roth Eisenberg a.k.a @swissmiss, Michael discusses his take on clients; the good, the bad and the ugly. Just under an hour long, it’s well worth a […]

Mar 03 2010

CORA Revises Position Paper to Reflect Architects’ Feedback

The Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA) has updated their recent position paper addressed to state governing bodies and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). I did not endorse the original document distributed last month, but the changes released today have improved the document enough to where I am comfortable supporting its basic premise. I do […]

Feb 25 2010

Non-Traditional Architecture Firms

A member of our Linkedin group, Entrepreneur Architect, posted a response to my discussion, “Learning From Other Industries: Could an architecture firm be successfully structured to run like a high-end salon?”. Amy Burke, NCARB is a member of a design group named Hyperform Design Co-op located just outside Denver, Colorado. Hyperform is an informal collaborative […]

Feb 18 2010

Growth and Evolution = Success

We’ve been making some changes over at Fivecat Studio. Read my post on Living Well in Westchester to learn more about what we’re doing and where we’re going.

Feb 16 2010

An Architects’ Manifesto

I have received this from several sources. Is this the beginning of a movement in the architectural profession? From CORAgroups.org: As architects have become increasingly marginalized in influence and worth to our culture, neither academia nor journalism has supported the historic role of the profession as a consistent voice of value in construction. Rather than […]