Since early 2012, I have been writing about the business of architecture, a subject that has since become the primary focus of Panfilo. You can review a chronological listing of all of my business content here, or search the below index on articles related to clients, growth and finances.
Heroes and villains
Grouped under the tag, heroes and villains
- The Co Architect, 6 September 2022
The client / architect relationship
Growth, fees and business finances
- Profit or profiteering, 9 January 2023
- Working pro bono, 1 September 2020
- The cost of Revit, 27 August 2020
- The data of growth, 18 April 2018
- To grow or not to grow, 16 April 2018
- Goals oriented planning, 27 March 2018
- The challenges of geography, 30 January 2017
- When the beast gets hungry, 24 December 2015
- Feeding the beast, 30 November 2015
- The ideal client, 15 January 2014
- Why your budget is not your brief, 10 January 2013
- The architectural fee, 25 April 2012
Why engage an architect
Grouped under the tag, why engage an architect
- We are surprisingly cheap, 3 November 2014
- We design for environmental sustainability, 27 October 2014
- We design for your future, 20 October 2014
- Quality not quantity, 13 October 2014
- Research and development, 29 September 2014
- We tell you how it is, 18 August 2014
- We have creative vision, 28 July 2014
- What you see is what you get, 21 July 2014
- Our work is site specific, 13 July 2014
- Our work is all about you, 10 July 2014
The different forms of the architectural fee
Grouped under the tag, explaining the architectural fee
- Explaining incremental tasks, 16 September 2016
- Explaining hourly rates, 10 August 2016
- Explaining the lump sum fee, 25 July 2016
- Explaining the percentage fee, 27 June 2016
- Explaining the architectural fee, 23 June 2016
The transition from a lean startup to a mature (but still lean) business
Grouped under the tag, renovating our business
- Predictable profitability – part 3, 23 February 2018
- Predictable profitability – part 2, 30 October 2017
- Predictable profitability – part 1, 23 October 2017
- Accountable accounting, 30 July 2017
- Renovating our business, 28 June 2017
Image:
- Mihaly Slocombe studio, photo by Tatjana Plitt.