Learn to Design and Build Your Architectural Business Model
So You Put in 60 Hours per Week or More.
You just wanted to finish a proposal for the new project you are going after. But instead most of your day is spent with phone calls and meetings. Seems like another all-nighter is coming up.
With all that working overtime, your personal life is almost completely nonexistent. And you are not even working on the designs of your dreams. Your client is controlling the design. To top it all, you’re only being paid a fraction of the project’s total value.
Sounds familiar? Ask yourself these yes/no questions:
- Are you constantly overworked?
- Are you underpaid?
- Does your client control your designs?
- Are your work methods inefficient?
- Do you want to change something, but don’t know how?
Did you answer yes to 3 out of 5 of these questions?
Then read on, because there is another way...
Work on Your Business Not Only in Your Business
What if you could design and build your own ideas from the ground up without seeking constant compromises with the client?
What if you could transition your business from billing by the hour to a business that can effectively function without you, freeing you up for more creative and interesting tasks? It’s a tempting proposal!
But how to start something like that when all you have is your architecture degree in your back pocket?
Here’s where we come in...
As an Architect, You Design Buildings.
As an Entrepreneur, You Design Businesses.
As an Archipreneur, You Design Both.
Take Matters into Your Own Hands and Become an Archipreneur.
The rules in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry are changing. Stay a step ahead of the competition by understanding what these changes mean for you. Design your business model not only your architecture.
Are you ready to build your own business but don't know where to start? It’s a common problem for architects. It’s no secret that architectural schools provide very little in terms of business education. We are taught to value good designs above all else and often neglect the business side of how a project gets completed.
To fill this knowledge gap, the team at Archipreneur has collected in “The Archipreneur Concept” the best business models for entrepreneurially-minded architects and added some powerful case studies of some of the fastest-growing archipreneurial firms in the industry.
Learn 3 Amazing Approaches to Build and Optimize Your Architecture Business
What's inside
15 Case Studies of Successful Out-Of-The-Box Thinkers in the Industry
Turning Ideas into Products
Two architects founded a company that combines automated manufacturing with a productized attitude toward architectural design. They developed software that translates all the design information for the factory and simplified the construction process. Their prefab houses are both affordable and elegant.
Productizing Architectural Services
A company created an automated software solution to provide building owners and managers with a way to cut energy usage without incurring high up-front costs: an energy management web-based tool that can cut energy consumption in built structures from 20% to 40% long term.
Architect as Developer. Building Mixed-Use Buildings
An architect developer has designed, developed and constructed numerous projects, proving that architects can be fully independent and in control of a project from drawing board to site completion.
Architect as Developer. Building a Co-Housing Community
An architecture practice uses co-housing as an effective business model that enables them to create their own design commissions. They have set the standards for many co-housing initiatives with their renowned projects.
Video Interviews
Michael is an architect who operates at the intersection of design and technology. He is the founder of Space Command, a design and technology firm in Middletown, CT.
Michael is also the founder of ArchSmarter, a website dedicated to helping architects work smarter, not harder. His writing on design and technology appears regularly in ArchDaily and ARCHITECT magazine.
Prior to founding his firm in 2012, Michael worked for a number of internationally recognized design firms. As an associate at Gehry Partners in Los Angeles, Michael worked on the New York by Gehry residential tower, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum, and the Joyce Theater in New York City.
Michael received his Bachelor of Architecture from Norwich University in 1995 and his Master of Science in Design and Computation from MIT in 1999.
Steven Burns received his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University.
In 1993, after seven years as an Associate and Senior Designer with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, working in Chicago, London and Berlin, Burns opened his own firm, Burns + Beyerl Architects (BBA).
Four years later, he started working on a software solution for streamlining his own business. He turned this solution into a product, ArchiOffice, which became a commercial success.
Steven then took his management expertise to BQE Software, where he currently enhances their business strategy and product development as Chief Creative Officer.
Gunita Kuļikovska is strategic designer with a background in architecture and urbanism. She is one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” young talents and a TEDxRiga 2016 speaker.
Together with her team, she is developing VIVIDLY; an innovative VR software and one of the first solutions in the world to be able to harness the power of virtual technology and offer a stepping stone for progress in the architecture, urban planning and construction industry.
VIVIDLY will launch its open beta on September 2017 until that you can get hands on becoming closed beta tester right away.
Ryan King is the founder of CoinCraft, a project management solution for architects.
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from RMIT University in Melbourne, and studied Engineering at the University of Newcastle.
Like many entrepreneurs Ryan’s experience stretches across a variety of professional fields; from engineering to architecture, graphic design and web design to programming.
He handles a bit of everything in Coincraft, overseeing business strategy, product management and branding.
Robert Yuen is an entrepreneur, strategist, and architectural designer. He received his M.Arch and MSc. in Digital Technologies from the University of Michigan.
He is now Partner at Dixon & Moe, Co-Founder of Section Cut and Co-Founder of monograph.io.
Robert’s key mission is to elevate the AEC industry by developing and designing specific software applications for architects, engineers and designers.
With domain knowledge and expertise in marketing, strategy, and architecture, his interests are in consulting on real world problems and in taking digital ideas from end to end.
Declan is a founding member of Placetailor, and is a current owner as well. As the strategic director, he keeps the company in order and oversees all of Placetailor’s projects.
If you are interested in Placetailor helping you with a project, Declan would be the guy to talk to. Declan is LEED AP, a certified passive house consultant, and like everyone at Placetailor, he is a designer as well as a builder.
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