Practice

• Social Justice Propels Today's Young Design Professionals

  When pursuing jobs in the design profession, young graduates want to bring their conscience to work.

   

• How to Talk to Clients

  Architects are trained to use esoteric language to establish their authority. But to get things built they need to both inspire people and put them at ease.

   

• What Will the Future of Residential Architecture Bring?

  In this industry moment poised between post-crash and comeback, it's a good time to pause, look around, and ask how we'll move forward.

   

• American Architects Follow Work Overseas to China

  With work to be done in China, American architects find themselves traversing a foreign landscape.

   

• Spec Writing in the Digital Age

  The search for the perfect products has gone global--and local.

   

• Protect Your Work: Online Copyright Advice for Architects

  Tips for negotiating the copyright land mines of the online world.

   

• For better and worse: how architect spouses cope with a crushing economy.

  While family-run businesses have advantages, couples who have tied the knot professionally face obvious risks, especially during a recession.

   

• Strategies for jump-starting stalled projects

  While the economy is starting to rebound, architects need to strategize when it comes to jump-starting their stalled projects.

   

• Everyone must be an entrepreneur as traditional paths of doing business disintegrate across professions.

  Adapting to an unpredictable economy means finding your inner entrepreneur.

   

• When dealing with clients and banks, architects need to be smart about what's normally routine paperwork

  How architects are navigating today's precipitous lending landscape.