Architect's Essentials of Starting a Design Firm
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2003
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Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step by step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the rewards of starting a firm. It covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues and the essentials of strategic and business plans. It addresses how to get started including how to create your first business plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budget and a produce a list of action items to get started. This volume is practical, applied, concise, portable, affordable, and user friendly.
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- Title
- Architect's Essentials of Starting a Design Firm
- Author
- Peter Piven
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471234818
- ISBN 13
- 9780471234814
- Covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues and the essentials of strategic and business plans
- Addresses how to get started including how to create your first business plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budget and a produce a list of action items to get started
- This volume is practical, applied, concise, portable, affordable and user-friendly
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About the Author
BRADFORD PERKINS, FAIA, OAA, AICP, is the founding principal of Perkins Eastman Architects, PC, a twenty-year-old architecture, planning, and interior design firm based in New York. He is a frequent lecturer on design and design-firm management topics, as well as the coauthor of Building Type Basics for Elementary and Secondary Schools (Wiley) and many industry articles.
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