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What Good Architects Do

The Business Case for Looking after your People

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Yesterday I was able to attend the Constructing Excellence in Essex event at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. The event was entitled Better Skills for Better Business, you can see the flier for the event here, but I wanted to post today about Liz Lake and her attitude to staff. Liz Lake is a Landscape [...]

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What Good Architects Do – Subtlety and Process

Watch this video about Jonathan Ives, the industrial designer behind Apple’s success. Two things I think are interesting about it. Firstly how he describes the process of design and production, and how he stresses the subtlety of the result. ‘So many of the products we’re surrounded by, they want you to be very aware of [...]

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So Why Use an Architect Then? And why use Me?

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A look at who has written officially about what architects do, and a guide to working out how to write an elevator pitch for a particular target client.

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Architect’s Low Pay – the RIBA responds

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On Thursday the RIBA issued a press release, RIBA President Ruth Reed takes action to tackle student hardship and low pay, which set out proposals to deal with financial hardship amongst architecture students, graduates and young practitioners.
The proposals include:

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Architects aren’t paid enough because 1: they don’t make enough money

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There is a common misconception amongst non-architect that architects are extremely well paid professionals, but this isn’t the case. In November 2007 the Office of National Statistics published a snapshot of UK Salaries which showed Architects (then earning on average just £38,559 Gross a year) were 30th in the list, behind amongst others, Fire, Ambulance, [...]

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Poll Results: ‘Architect’

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Last week I asked the Question, “When I say the word Architect, what comes to mind?” and posted the question here on the blog, on linkedin and via my twitter account to as many people as possible, asking them to post up their responses via the seedkeywords website. All 166 results can be viewed in [...]

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Stop Pretending You’re Everyone

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I’m not particularly keen on ‘Social Media Geeks’. A bit like I’m not particularly keen on ‘Architecture Geeks’. You know, the type of people who talk only to their friends and people in their own sphere, and who can’t stop spouting incomprehensible twaddle in language only their converts can understand. However, things can get interesting [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 3: Things to start doing

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by Richard Derwent Cooke This is the third blog in this series, and hopefully you now have the core idea that being proactive is the key to success in these recessionary times. Last time we considered things that you needed to stop doing and now I’d like to consider those things that you need to [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 2: Things to stop doing

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By Richard Derwent Cooke Once you have accepted that you are best able to succeed in the recession by taking charge, a key question to ask is “What am I doing that no longer serves me?” Things like:- What activities are wasting my time? Remember the 80:20 rule Which customers are taking a disproportionate amount [...]

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Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 1: Change how you see things

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by Richard Derwent Cooke The world is in global economic melt down .. right? And yet I am sure there are many people and businesses that are doing very well in today’s marketplace. Of course there are practical difficulties with getting credit (if you need it) or perhaps with clients who lack liquidity. However, if [...]

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