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This is your essential one stop shop for information on starting and running a practice. Case studies and advice from practitioners, big and small, run alongside outlines of all the key topics, to give you an insight into the problems and challenges others have faced when setting up a design business. Accessible and informative, this handbook is the ideal first point of reference when starting a practice.
Architects have many different reasons for setting up in practice; equally, there are many ways of running your own business. This handbook helps you consider whether or not you should set up on your own, examining issues such as financing, office space, recruitment, IT and workingo ut a business plan. Some architects want to stay small, while others have ambitions to grow into large businesses. Some grow big accidentally. And then there are those who pick and choose their work carefully, and even turn down undesirable contracts, while others will grab at everything possible. This book woudl explore these different models and illustrate how different kinds of practice develop into successful businesses.
Importantly, the book will stress that these issues are crucial - you may be the best designer in the world, but unless your business is well managed you will fail. On the other hand, some successful architects spend a lot of time looking for new work and attending to management issues, rarely finding the time for design work. This book would illustrate how architects have struck a balance between these two extremes.
* Provides practical advice to show you how to make your business a success
* Based on real life examples, not theory, to give you a jargon free accessible guide
* Gives clear and concise information guiding you directly to the key information you need
Architects have many different reasons for setting up in practice; equally, there are many ways of running your own business. This handbook helps you consider whether or not you should set up on your own, examining issues such as financing, office space, recruitment, IT and workingo ut a business plan. Some architects want to stay small, while others have ambitions to grow into large businesses. Some grow big accidentally. And then there are those who pick and choose their work carefully, and even turn down undesirable contracts, while others will grab at everything possible. This book woudl explore these different models and illustrate how different kinds of practice develop into successful businesses.
Importantly, the book will stress that these issues are crucial - you may be the best designer in the world, but unless your business is well managed you will fail. On the other hand, some successful architects spend a lot of time looking for new work and attending to management issues, rarely finding the time for design work. This book would illustrate how architects have struck a balance between these two extremes.
* Provides practical advice to show you how to make your business a success
* Based on real life examples, not theory, to give you a jargon free accessible guide
* Gives clear and concise information guiding you directly to the key information you need
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Any serious business, architectural or not, needs to do three things: charge the right fee, manage cash flow and get a good accountant. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This book helped and inspired me a great deal,
By Miriam Lord (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Architect's Guide to Running a Practice (Paperback)
Every architect should read this book. Even those from the 'old school' would learn from its fresh approach. It's so practical and inspirational, and includes lots of business advice that could be applied to any profession, but it's so appropriate for architects and the way they work.I've enjoyed reading it too.
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Great insights - even if you're not an architect,
This review is from: The Architect's Guide to Running a Practice (Paperback)
David Littlefield's book gives some great insights into the workings of an architects practice. Useful even if you're not an architect, but would like to know more about the way they work.I found Chapter 2 on Marketing very informative. "Good images help underpin good marketing. Look at what gets published and what is exhibited, and compare it with your own work." Peter Walsham
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