The Architect's Guide to Running a Practice

Description
This is an important book filled with information on starting and running a practice. Case studies and advice from practitioners, big and small, run alongside outlines of all the key topics, to give you an insight into the problems and challenges others have faced when setting up a design business. Accessible and informative, this handbook is the ideal first point of reference when starting a practice.

1. Provides practical advice to show you how to make your business a success
2. Based on real life examples, not theory, to give you a jargon free accessible guide
3. Gives clear and concise information guiding you directly to the key information you need

Audience
Professional architects and design professionals thinking about, or in the process of, starting their own practice. Architecture and design students.

Contents
Preface, Introduction, 1 Money, 2 Marketing, 3 Staying Small, 4 Managing Growth, 5 Office Management, 6 IT, Appendices, A Debt collection, B PR - In-house VS Consultant, C Framework Agreements, D Management structure at AEDAS, E Employment Contracts, F Practice administration, G Business models, H Contacts


El Croquis:

El Croquis 99 - Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa
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El Croquis 73 - Zaha Hadid & Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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El Croquis 103 - Zaha Hadid
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El Croquis 94 - Neutelings Riedijk
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El Croquis 77 - Kazuyo Sejima & Waro Kishi
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El Croquis 85 - Wiel Arets
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El Croquis 111 - MVRDV
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El Croquis 68/69+95 - Alvaro Siza
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El Croquis - Frank Gehry
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Architects: Santiago Calatrava - Lyon, Gare TGV Satolas (French), AVI
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Architects: Richard Meier Red Book
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Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza - Works & Projects
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Architects: Tadao Ando - Buildings & Projects
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Architects: Konstandinidis Aris - Buildings & Projects
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Frank Lloyd Wright (2 books)
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Frank Lloyd Wright (Trewin Copplestone)
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Architectural Record - 2004(5-12), 2005(all), 2006(1-5)
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ViA arquitectura (1-11)
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Dictionnaire Multimédia de l'architecture du Xxème siècle
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Architectural Design:

New houses in old buildings
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Residences for the Elderly
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Some architectural books
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The Complete Book Of Underground Houses
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The Architectural Review - Selection (2002-2005)
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TEN HOUSES (1-10) + Interior design construction (Japanese only)
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DOMUS – Architecture, Design, Art, Communication:
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1999: http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_1999_architecture_design_art_communication.html
2000: http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_2000_architecture_design_art_communication.html
2001: http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_2001_architecture_design_art_communication.html
2003: http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_2003_architecture_design_art_communication.html
2004: http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_2004_architecture_design_art_information.html
DOMUS - Look back (1928(N1), 1934(N83), 1946(N205)): http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/domus_look_back_1928_1934_1946.html