There is no need for a lot of capital to get started: just a website with information on your packaged services and there you go. And the nice thing is that you can combine it perfectly with classical project-work. This allows you to build it up slowly on the side without losing too much income and without too much risk. Set one day a week aside for productization of your service business, and two years from now you might own a nice little productized service business.
An important hint in making this succeed is: build a solution for a real, tangible and specific problem or pain. Ideally, a pain or problem that you experienced yourself so you really know for a fact it is a pain point for others as well.
People are always willing to give you their money if you solve their problems! Advance warning: this is a tough path, which requires lots of time, patience, night and weekend work, and a willingness to get there. The only way to achieve such a revenue number, is through massively scalable and repeatable product sales. There are tons of smaller and actually quite achievable examples of successful products which are much closer to our own world.
Writing a book for example: you write it once and you could sell it in an automated way to an unlimited number of people. Each extra copy you sell does not require any extra work. You could go out for a drink on a Friday evening, and wake up Saturday morning with more money on your bank account.
Meanwhile the book turned into a digital platform for architects and innovative building professionals. A Software product is another way of achieving this.
Our own App for field reports and punch lists ArchiSnapper is an example. We focus on solving a pain many architects are struggling with time consuming field reports and site inspection and we built a solution for it in the form of a software product. Another illustration of how architects can use their creative skillset to create products, is by designing and selling physical products.
Take Bullenberg for example whom Tobias interviewed , two guys who started making huge handmade oak tables with a really nice design. USA based architect Eric Reinholdt has been successful in generating two products. The other one is … selling floor plans.
People can actually buy standard plans online if they like them, instead of hiring an architect to craft something similar. Generating revenue with a product is probably the hardest way to generate money. The starting capital required to create a product does not necessarily need to be high e. The amount of upfront work and time required before you make a single dollar is often very large. That is when the real work begins: you need a way to sell your products, market them, and make them known.
This is hard. I know from experience, I do this every day with ArchiSnapper We often talk about multiple years 2 — 4 of hard work and patience before you can break even or start to make some profit. There is also quite some risk in inventing and selling your own products. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, we highly recommend checking out the Archipreneur. Together with innovative building and business experts, he shares insights, reports and news, you can get in touch with like-minded spirits or subscribe to the Archipreneur academy.
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Money — with Tobias Maescher from Archipreneur. Good Good article I love it so much. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Parts of this house i like. The brick, I like the standing seam metal roof I like etc. This house with its twelve foot beamed ceilings etc. Brilliant DS! I am going to remember that one. It's not mine, trace, it was another poster here on architect about 7 years ago - I've forgotten her name by now.
But it is quite brilliant. You don't want to hire ME to sing at your daughter's wedding, but if you want a nice house design you don't want to hire Aretha Franklin! They might realize they're being stupid after they run into so many issues that it gets overwhelming - or they might not I think this "client" demonstrates a misconception about what the "stamp" means.
He's conveniently excluding all the legal ramifications which that process actually entails, not to mention how much it cost the proprietor of said stamp to get "legal" possession of the stamp He needs to be instructed in some finer points of civic law.
My god - how much self loathing and self-righteousness are we willing to keep wallowing in? Just politely blow these kinds of people off and keep moving What is true for run-of-the-mill residential work where an architect IS often non-essential is not so for large, structurally complex, health care, historical preservation, and advanced energy performance, etc.
This is the realm of architects: coordination, scheduling, specs, codes, multi-headed clients. The question that follows is are there more architects out there than are required to work on this class of buildings? I don't think so for two reasons: 1 as a population, we are returning to historical city cores, cores whose historic districts are simultaneously growing.
This combination of factors means there will be an increase in complex adaptive re-use. The complexity and expertise required to pull this off should fall into the domain of the architect if we seize the day.
The percentage of architects as a function of the US URBAN population has not grown over the history of the profession, and is in fact smaller that that in most nations in Europe.
Architects must concentrate on these growing urban cores: sustainable retrofit, preservation, integration with mass transit, and infill. Except hbrain Sure, architects can do planning but an architect's knowledge of planning is a 3-week crash course or a semester of 'introduction to planning That's basically "let rich people graft zombie blocks in marginal development so that can charge absurdly high rents.
Those who do provide simple, concise solutions are the same ones getting paid to design vinyl-and-EIFS-clad torture boxes. Albeit, those solutions are ultimately cop out solutions and their designs are often unmotivated and uninspired. Just learn to churn out shit architecture like this and you'll be good to go. If architects continually agree to do and put out shoddy, plasticized work So, at the next AIA convention I'm not talking about planning, or any variety of multi-building urban-scale work, that does necessarily operate at a conceptual granularity above the single building.
I am talking specifically about single, larger, contextually-complex, buildings. I am thinking of multi-story, multi-use, mutli-tenant. I am thinking of buildings that might, say, have the Highline integration with existing historically significant infrastructure as an public entrance; a building that might extend below the Highline structure as well. Or, an office building in a dense historical down town that has a pile foundation needled between an existing MTA tunnel and a PATH station All complicated, all beyond the scope of a over-zealous client.
This being said, I don't want to detract from design as a real and hard-to-learn skill-set that has it's own value. No question that it's critical and must be holistically integrated into any design project, if the result isn't expected to look like a Revit model come-to-life. It just may not prove to be the skill set that puts all the architects of the world to work, gainfully.
There are a few things going on here: 1. The growing ubiquitousness of software and its effects on the accessiblity of design. This will not abate. The fact that in housing houses at least, the barriers for entry are low, or at least negotiable. The only thing standing between the client and a building is a legal requirement authorizing the design as safe and buildable, tied to liability and insurance.
No architect can depend on this. The process of getting a building built is horribly inefficient and fractured I think housing is always vulnerable, because it is increasingly accessible - no school board is going to go to an architect asking them to stamp drawings, neither is a hospital.
Lets just admit that we have lost the war on houses. How about this then for a new mode of practice? The architect is purely a facilitator to the process, and it is a mixture of education, workshop and production. The architect is able to stamp the drawings because it has been done under guidance. The client gets to develop their own designs and feels a genuine part of the process. The architect charges fees on this exercise as if it was a tuition fee - its kind of like art classes - and there could be multiple 'students'.
This is all very simplistic, but I think it might have some merit. Particularly if you target sustainable buildings etc, where the client has passion but limited technical knowledge.
As far as I am concerned design build is architecture I read a stat once that if architects both licensed and unlicensed were to be involved in the process of house construction in this country, everyone would have to do 13 houses a year.
I have worked with and for many many architects and I can tell you most of them couldn't solve a problem quick enough to justify their hourly rate moreover finish 1 house per month. How many management classes and real world scenarios did we go thru in studio?
Met this guy once who went from something like stock broker to charter school creator, he was telling me about the schools construction and how the price of steel was increasing as the trucks were delivering the steel from the south to the northeast.
He got on the phone and started talking to the architect and engineer and contractors on how find savings elsewhere as this was happening. Now find me some architects with this where-with-all? Lets just come clean about the illusion that architecture - buildings by architect - are automatically and inherently better. Design build is architecture, but unfortunately, architects are not well represented at the helm of these organisations.
Where are the practices that say for example we only do houses 50m2 and less because we believe that this is the best way forward for the built environment, for cost and sustainability? Uxbridge 9 out of 10 people think that the building that you posted is fine. This is a joint thread response building on your post diabase Why don't we just abandon the traditional american education of the architect, like really just delete the major as was presented for years at school.
Schools that already have design build programs could literally just make that the only program. No BArch or MArch Forget accredidation and guarenteeing getting a license, moreover getting a license should be like a 1 or 2 years master program for people with degrees in design build, engineering, interio design, BFA in architecture, etc In other words anyone, and I mean anyone, may file designs of any type with state DOB.
The state DOB would be the ones that both stamped and approved. Now I realize public institutions are slow so we would allow private organizations the ability to review and stamp. This already happens but its a convoluted admission that this happens. Thinking out loud So the example is this, you are straight out of school, your buddy just opened a GC company and you and him get 4 mil in construction because your uncle has a restaurant chain.
You and your buddy have limited knowledge of such scope but your filing fee, now in the 10ks pays a private or public organization to review and note out the things you need to make it legal. In short anyone can offer architecture services and the state for a fee will legalize it and control inspect it.
This happens already to a certain degree but the law about its "illegal" to say and offer architecture services unless licensed prevents this and prevents the people who have a knack for entrepuership and design build that aren't licensed from doing this. I dont think an architect can rely on what effectively is an artifical trade barrier for much longer, and I think you will get a range of different procurement models. The key thing always will addressing and pricing risk.
But there are so many ways to do this. In short The guy mentioned in OP goes down to DOB, pays a consulting sit down fee, then makes his changes and pays a construction drawings and filing fee all prepared by the DOB. There would be charts for what a typical house filing would cost per sqft etc.. Jman marketing is a problem, because those who have a knack for it and may not be licensed can't just go out there and market.
I am not saying the skills of an architect are not needed, I am just saying the whole "can't offer services or market oneself as an architect" is just silly when just about everything an architect can stamp an engineer could and in smaller municipalities in some states after the dwgs are filed the DOB does all the inspections and there is no need for the creator of "design intent" to visit the site.
I know unlicensed architects and contractors with more knowledge than most licensed architects. We all know in whether small or large jobs the person who knows the construction detail is usually not the Architect as the Arcitect wants to avoid liabilkity so they say nothing about anything and someone else takes on the risk.
Most sub contractors shop drawing fees are higher than what and architect pays their draftsmen. In most european countries after school you can practice on your own. My heart goes out to the people who are saddled with mountain sized college loans to pay off and are currently struggling to earn enough money to keep the lights on.
I am even more sympathetic towards the recent grads that have been unable to find employment or the older seasoned architects that have forced into early retirement — but that speak more to the workload rather than the salaries available. Most of those people who I know would take any job just to feel like a contributing member of society once again. Therefore, anything you read on this site is not a substitute for actually working with me.
Following my casual advice is at your own peril … if you want my undivided attention, I would recommend hiring me. Clearly that person is an idiot. Masonry Fireplaces - Cottonwood Modern. Architectural Graphics Finish Schedules. Residential Architecture Materials. Sexy Retaining Wall. Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition
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