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Jun 22 2022

Tough Love: Grow Your Team by Not Bailing Them Out

By Leo MacLeod This scenario might sound familiar: After receiving a delegated task, the person emails back half-done work, saying, “Did as much as I could; kicking it back to you.” You take the bait and help out and kick it back to the person. They hit another wall, and you help again. This continues […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Books and Magazines, Leadership · Tagged: Architects, architects as leaders, books, leadership

Mar 22 2021

Architects’ Claim to Storyteller Status

In the first article of this series, Architects as Storytellers we looked at the possible historical and etymological origins for why we call the levels of a building “stories.” The main idea is that the frieze of an ancient Greek temple often featured sculpted scenes honoring a god or goddess. The frieze was a narrative […]

Written by Collier Ward · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, Branding, Marketing, Origin Story, Story, Storytelling

Feb 22 2021

Architects as Storytellers

My fellow architects, you may not know it, but you have a rightful claim to the status of storyteller. Your professional roots of designing and constructing buildings are deeply connected to language, communication, and to storytelling in profound ways. Let me ask you a question: The last building project you completed – how many floors […]

Written by Collier Ward · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, Branding, Story, Storytelling

Jan 25 2021

Advantages of Remote Hiring and Onboarding for Architects

Our first experience with remote hiring was March 18, 2020 – the first day the firm started working from home. CO Architects is fortunate that our workload increased throughout 2020, so we had to adapt quickly to recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and integrating new staff virtually. We’ve hired and onboarded 25 new employees since March 2020, […]

Written by Jenna Knudsen · Categorized: Business, Hiring, Remote Teams · Tagged: Architects, hiring, onboarding, remote teams

Jun 28 2018

Behind the Design 002:
HillHouse by Zack / de Vito
Architecture + Construction

Project Name HillHouse Project Location Mill Valley, CA Firm Name Zack/de Vito Architecture + Construction Architect’s Name Jim Zack & Lise de Vito Project Design Team Jim Zack, Andrew Germann, Lise de Vito, Sarah Nicolas Consultants Weller Design (Lighting) Firm Address 156 South Park, San Francisco, CA 94107 Website URL www.zackdevito.com Instagram Account @zack_devito_architecture Photography […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Behind the Design · Tagged: Architects, architectural photography, Architecture, behindthedesign, Business, Marketing, sales, Systems

Jun 21 2018

Behind the Design 001:
Calender Rd. by Allen Architecture, LLC

Project Name Calender Rd. Project Location Arlington, Texas Firm Name ALLEN ARCHITECTURE LLC Architect’s Name Brandon E. Allen, AIA Project Design Team Brandon E. Allen, Anissa Allen, Brad Blessing, Ana-Sofia Gonzalez Consultants JHF Construction (GC), H&H Engineering (Structural), edited (furniture, art, staging) Firm Address 1227 W. Magnolia Ave. LL100, Fort Worth, Texas 76110 Website URL […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Behind the Design · Tagged: Architects, architectural photography, Architecture, behindthedesign, Business, Marketing, sales, Systems

Jun 12 2018

Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

This is the transcript from EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 223, Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here. ***Start Transcript*** Mark R. LePage:            00:00               Do you know how to calculate the exact amount you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 […]

Written by Sarah Rowe · Categorized: Uncategorized · Tagged: Architects, Architecture, building science, Business, climate, climate change, Design, money, Profit, Success, Systems

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 […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business, Leadership · Tagged: Architects, architecture firms, first job, hiring, hr, interns

Jul 05 2016

A Guide to Successful Recruitment at Your Architecture Firm (Part One)

(This is a guest post by Bob Morgan, an architect based in South-East Asia) Good Morning Jobseekers! PART 1: Recruitment Options You have just pulled another ‘Candlelit Vigil!’ – On top of a 60 Hour Week! – We all have to give extra effort at times; but now it is becoming a ‘Regular Weekly Event!’ During […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business · Tagged: Architects, hiring, human resources, recruitment at an architecture firm

Jun 21 2016

How to Use an Email Newsletter to Acquire More Leads for an Architecture Firm

Years before launching EntreArchitect, I published a quarterly newsletter for my own residential architecture firm, Fivecat Studio. Without much effort, I acquired hundreds of subscribers through links on a few social media profiles. The newsletter was part of my marketing plan and every few months I half-heartedly scrambled to send something out. Even without the […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business · Tagged: Architects, Architecture, email, lead generation, Marketing, newsletter

Jun 14 2016

How To Automate Your Small Firm Architecture Studio

As small firm architects, we are responsible for so many different roles and responsibilities. We are pulled in so many different directions and our schedules are full every day, from morning to evening. We need to meet with clients, develop and distribute marketing, respond to important email, manage our social media accounts, send invoices, collect […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business, Personal Productivity · Tagged: apps for architects, Architects, architecture firm, automate, automation, Business, productivity, Success

Mar 28 2016

How to Establish an Orientation Process for New Employees in Architecture

For this final week of March here at EntreArchitect.com, where throughout the month we have been sharing content on the theme of Leadership, we are sharing a great guest post from earlier last year by Norbert Lemermeyer of Architecture + Business. Establish an Orientation for New Employees The following outlines the standard orientation for a new […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Leadership · Tagged: Architects, Architecture, Employees, hiring, leadership, orientation process

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