Successful Strategies for Working with Your Remote Teams Many small firm architects have been slowly moving toward working successfully with remote teams. The tools and technology are reliable enough to do this on a regular basis, but do you have the discipline to create and follow the systems to make it work for your small […]
EA081: My 5 Tools for Pursuing a Productive Paperless Virtual Studio [Podcast]
For 11 years Fivecat Studio was located in Pleasantville, New York about 10 minutes from our home in Chappaqua. It was a 2000 square foot space with hardwood floors, large windows, exposed structure and tall ceilings. It was a fabulous space for an architecture studio and we enjoyed being there for all those years. In […]
EA043: 5 Mistakes I Made When Launching My Virtual Architecture Studio [Podcast]
Everything I do in business, I approach as an experiment. It’s been 9 months since moving Fivecat Studio out of our 2,000 square foot studio in Pleasantville, New York to a new 200 square foot studio in our Chappaqua home. It’s been very successful and I love what we’re doing, but this week on the […]
EA039: A Virtual Round Table Discussing the Virtual Studio [Podcast]
This week on the podcast, I invited small firm architects Lee Calisti, Jeremiah Russell, Steve May and Neal Pann to discuss the virtual studio business model. Neal was in the wilds of Canada on vacation and could not make it to the call, but Lee, Jeremiah, Steve and I had a very interesting conversation about […]
EA011: The Virtual Studio with Kevin deFreitas [Podcast]
In this eleventh episode of the Entrepreneur Architect podcast, I speak with architect Kevin deFreitas about his success as an Entrepreneur Architect using a virtual studio business model. Annmarie and I have shifted our business model at Fivecat Studio to look much like what Kevin describes. I learned a bunch from Kevin and I hope […]



