Architect And Entrepreneur: A Field Guide To Bu...

He began searching for a handbook or step-by-step guide that would help him to get started. But the publications he found were either uninspired or completely outdated. Everything he found, including AIA (American Institute of Architects) publications, seemed filled with fusty descriptions that belonged more to the past than the future of architectural entrepreneurship. So he turned instead to online resources, finding blogs, forums and articles on the Internet that were of much more use to him.

Architect and Entrepreneur: A Field Guide to Bu...

What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional - every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and listenable guide. Professional Practice is expertly narrated by Camille Mazant.

Part narrative, part business book, Architect and Entrepreneur is filled with contemporary, relevant, fresh tips and advice from a seasoned professional architect building a new business. The guide advocates novel strategies and tools that merge entrepreneurship with the practices of architecture and interior design.

The flow of money can make or break an MSO model from a compliance perspective as well. Behind the uses to be discussed in this field guide are state and federal laws. While the laws differ depending on the circumstances, all the uses rely on proper flow of funds to maintain the integrity of the model. Additionally, the proper flow of money helps align the business plan of the parties with the regulatory issues.

[This excludes general consultancies, outsourcing and technology-related consultancy groups focused on process/service delivery or solutions/systems architecture. Such firms do not meet the guidelines, particularly those primarily serving large corporate or multinational corporate (MNC) customers.

In 1958, the RAIA organised a professional indemnity insurance scheme to assist and protect its members. Around the same time, as the unyielding business world pressed harder, the council also considered the matter of architectural firms becoming limited liability companies. Such an arrangement existed nowhere else in the world, which meant that there were no precedents to serve as a guide. Both the insurance scheme and the approval of limited liability companies were important indicators of the changes in the profession (Freeland 1971: 183). 041b061a72