The Sustainable Sites Initiative elevates the importance of landscape.
Reinvention 2011 ended with a participatory event during which conference attendees shared selections from their own portfolios.
Residential architects and designers from across the country grabbed a boxed lunch and climbed aboard buses for the popular housing tour that kicks off Reinvention each year.
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Gray Organschi's houses define the luxury of scarcity: creating richness with simple moves.
How architects are navigating today's precipitous lending landscape.
The debate of architect vs. designer has taken on new fervor in this cutthroat economy.
With the economic recovery stuck in low gear, U.S. architects are looking overseas for commissions.
Bold graphics, personality, and quick access to information are all the rage when it comes to portraying your company and its work online.
Sometimes the question of whether to remodel or rebuild isn't an easy one, but it's one architects frequently address.
Smaller projects mean more client interviews, thinner profit margins, and more jobs starting and stopping.
Some firms are struggling to keep offering perks to employees in the down economy.
To sustain their businesses during the economic recovery, some firms are getting creative with their pricing.
In recessionary times, architects have to exercise their creativity and do more with less.
If you've considered abandoning your commercial digs for the comfort and low overhead of home, you're not alone. The number of home-based entrepreneurs is likely to boom over the next few years.
Think of architectural hot spots, and you think of big cities: Boston, Chicago, New York. Major metropolitan areas thrive on diversity and innovation, but they're also known for pollution, traffic, and expensive real estate, and not every architect wants to live in one. Small towns have trade-offs...
Good professional advice is often elusive. It might come from a trusted mentor, a members-only round table, or an informal group of savvy peers, but you have to make the effort to go out and find it.
Midway through year two of the grimmest recession in decades, many architects are wondering where their next projects are coming from.
There's a lot of hype around online schmoozing, to be sure, and some see it as a trendy Internet time drain. But there's evidence that it can be a powerful professional ally—especially for small firms and independent practitioners.