Interesting insights into the professoin and the training/conditioning of architects.
http://www.archsoc.com/kcas/Socialise.html
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Bad Clients
It took a few projects to teach me to stay away from bad clients.
So before signing up any project , I advise you to spend a few minutes, hours or days talking to your potential clients and get to know them .If you see the following signs you might want not to work with them.
These are the few bad signs:
1-Bargaining dollars and cents with you right from the beginning.
2-No experience in dealing with architects, contractors or building projects.
3-Unrealistic schedule.
4-Unrealistic budgets.
5-Very high expectation. Expecting perfection,but has no real budget to support it.
6-Cannot really define what they want or expect.
7-Mentally unstable, easily stressed out.
8-Check or call you every 30 minutes.
9-Rude.
10-Ask you for discount. Tell you there will be future projects.
11-Bad mouth about other architects.
12-Bad credit ( yes you need to check their credit histroy)
13-Expect you to guarantee the work.
14-Playing good cop and bad cop games with you.
15-Knows someone in City Hall who can expedite things.
16-Sleazy.
17-Don't trust your judgement
If you have any bad client stories , please share.
So before signing up any project , I advise you to spend a few minutes, hours or days talking to your potential clients and get to know them .If you see the following signs you might want not to work with them.
These are the few bad signs:
1-Bargaining dollars and cents with you right from the beginning.
2-No experience in dealing with architects, contractors or building projects.
3-Unrealistic schedule.
4-Unrealistic budgets.
5-Very high expectation. Expecting perfection,but has no real budget to support it.
6-Cannot really define what they want or expect.
7-Mentally unstable, easily stressed out.
8-Check or call you every 30 minutes.
9-Rude.
10-Ask you for discount. Tell you there will be future projects.
11-Bad mouth about other architects.
12-Bad credit ( yes you need to check their credit histroy)
13-Expect you to guarantee the work.
14-Playing good cop and bad cop games with you.
15-Knows someone in City Hall who can expedite things.
16-Sleazy.
17-Don't trust your judgement
If you have any bad client stories , please share.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Architect As Developer
I think the best way for architect to gain control over design, reponsibility and making profits is by a being a developer/builder. Without it all we ended up with is a set of documents which the clients wants to pay zero for it and their lawyers can find all kinds of issues with it.
There are many successful and rich architect/builders. The top 4 that came to mind over here at USA are :
John Portman (http://portmanusa.com/founder.html)
David Hovey http://www.optimaweb.com/Company/corporate_profile.html
Jonathan Segal. http://www.jonathansegalarchitect.com/
Isadore Sharp ( Canadian) http://www.fourseasons.com/book/
There are many successful and rich architect/builders. The top 4 that came to mind over here at USA are :
John Portman (http://portmanusa.com/founder.html)
David Hovey http://www.optimaweb.com/Company/corporate_profile.html
Jonathan Segal. http://www.jonathansegalarchitect.com/
Isadore Sharp ( Canadian) http://www.fourseasons.com/book/
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
RICH ARCHITECT
This blog is dedicating to all young and old architects who are starting or running their own business.
I hope we can all share our passion for design and also the day to day war and success stories
of running our business, dealing with red tapes and clients. From here I hope we can gain strength and confidence in dealing with all out there.
And I hope this will all make us Rich Architect, in experience and also in monetary term .
I hope we can all share our passion for design and also the day to day war and success stories
of running our business, dealing with red tapes and clients. From here I hope we can gain strength and confidence in dealing with all out there.
And I hope this will all make us Rich Architect, in experience and also in monetary term .
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