In late 2006, nine months after founding our small architecture firm, we started a blog on our website as a place to add news about the firm. Business blogging had been popular for years, but few architects (such late adopters) had them. We started blogging anyway, in spite of the fact that other architects weren’t doing it. To try something new
. This is a weekend house that I have just about completed and should probably go into construction sometime over the summer. I have adjusted the original design model to reflect the actual roadway conditions and modified the typography (to 12″ increments) in an effort to paint a clearer picture for the eventual contractor. Since [...]
As a sort of follow up to my last blog on community service, there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony today at 1:00 for the newly designed and constructed entrance to the Jewish Community Center (click here for address and directions). Bruce Bernbaum, one of the partners in our firm, Bernbaum Magadini Architects, donates a [...]
The ability of any designer to be any good at what they do (at least in a service capacity) is their ability to listen to a client, who can’t describe why they like something other than they like it, and walk them through what they are looking at and describe it for them. Hopefully, the process will get you both to the essence of what makes a thing great and apply those qualities to something new without resorting to copying.
I like tell clients that everyone needs to have skin in the game, that both architect and client are accountable to one another and while we both have something to gain, we both also have something to lose. I received some questions about hourly fees that I didn’t address the first time around so let’s revisit hourly fees –
