Tag: business
There's an allure of being the boss that promises complete artistic control and the ability to pick and choose projects at will. In reality, this is seldom the case, and it's not so much starting a practice as it is starting a business.
When Ken Shuttleworth left Foster and Partners after 30 years to start his own practice, he worried that he might make a pig's ear of it. But he went ahead and did it anyway...
In the third instalment of the series, AR talks to Larisa Moran of Woods Bagot about future business strategies and managing a practice in the current economic climate.
Tender writing can be the bane of an architectural firm's existence. But it doesn't need to be that way if you have the correct processes in place. AR will run regular articles on the practice of tender writing and here we begin with an introduction to the discipline.
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