Your Architecture Career: How to Build a Successful Professional Life

About this book

Master the business side of architecture with advice from an expertdeciding on a career building a repudiation RFPs and proposals and more. In Your Architecture Career Gary Unger provides tips and guidance to students interns architects and firm owners to help them understand and master the business side of architecture and interior design. Students in school are not taught to manage process projects and clientsthe emphasis is on design. However most graduates will not finish their careers as designers. Rather their focus will be on marketing programming project management cost estimating rendering virtual reality drawing documentation specifications workplace strategy and construction administration. Gary Unger expertly describes the creative aspects of these disciplines and the considerable value they bring to a firm. In order to accurately represent how an architecture firm successfully operates Gary stresses the importance of teamwork. With project teams made up of architects engineers realtors building owners contractors furniture dealers and more it is important to note that a projects success is measured by how well handoffs of information are executed both inside a firm as well as from firm to firm. Spanning a wide variety of topics chapters include: Completing architectural school Deciding on a career path Landing your first job Building your reputation Managing handoffs RFPs and proposals Reassessing your career Starting your own firm Whether youre a student about to graduate or a seasoned professional Your Architecture Career is an invaluable resource for the business side of architecture.