“A third of architectural practices made so little profit in the boom times that they could go bust with the onslaught of the credit crunch, an RIBA survey has revealed. This year’s RIBA Business …
What is your Get Out Of Bed Rate?
Running a business is a matter of ins and outs. 'My other piece of advice, Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, …
What good architects do: Strategy
Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you? An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All …
A Store full of Repentance and No Customers
Sky Masterson: “You are stuck with a store full of repentance and no customers. Without sinners to repent, repentance doesn't exist. So you're stuck with a store full of nothing. Do I give you a fair …
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What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections
All good designers are great at joining things together. A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by …
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Joining the Architects Twibe
As more and more architects get on to twitter and start tweeting away, they routinely look for each other, and with a bit of luck they come across the Architects Twitter League and end up joining, for …