Today Rion Willard speaks with the accomplished, design-forward British architect Carl Turner.

This episode is full of amazing insight into the business lessons that Carl Turner has learned as he has explored the intersection between great business and great design.

On today's episode you'll discover:

- How architect Carl Turner started his practice
- How he designed his own award-winning house and leveraged that effort to get exposure and prominence through the media
- How he uses the concept of "optimizing profit" (instead of "maximizing profit") to partner with development entities to create projects that revitalize underused areas

I think you'll love this episode with Carl Turner, and if you do, I'd love to have you leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher.

Paul Traynor is the President of Light Bureau, a UK lighting design consultancy.

In this episode, Paul talks about the early days growing his practice, including the 'big levers' that made a dramatic impact on the success of his practice.

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about legal entities for architecture firms.

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In this interview, you’ll hear from the winner of the recent Architect Business Plan competition, architect Scott Larrick. Scott is the founder of Eleven:59 Studio, and architecture firm based in Austin, Texas.

In this episode you’ll discover:

1. How Scott Larrick built his firm in the early days.
2. How he identified his target market.
3. How he got his first projects.
4. What business development strategies worked, and what didn’t work.

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In this episode we discuss specialization, competitive analysis, client research, and creating a growth plan for an architecture firm. Our guest is Bob Fisher, principal of Greenway Group and Associate Publisher at Design Intelligence.

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In 2009, as a newly minted MArch graduate, Cavin Costello moved from the East Coast to Phoenix, Arizona with high hopes of finding his dream architecture job. Over the next 4 months, he sent out over 250 resumes and made hundreds of phone calls. His tale is an inspiring story of perseverance. Four years later he is a partner after starting his own design firm.

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Here on the Business of Architecture show we talk about two words that don't often go together, money and architecture. Yes, we talk about what a lot of architects don't like talking about, how to make enough money as an architect to pursue the kind of projects you want to work on.

Here on the show we believe that making good money facilitiates making good architecture and living a full life that isn't hampered by the stress of paying the bills or finding the jobs.

In this episode, UK architect James Butterworth takes us on a journey through the economic crash, getting laid off from his corporate architecture job, to fully booking his architecture practice and looking to hire more people.

James has figured out how to market and get more clients for his firm, he appreciates that you need various marketing channels to work simultaneously if you want real clients.

In this interview architect Heather Johnston AIA tells us how she started her own architecture firm. We talk about architectural education, and how to find clients for an architecture firm.

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Conversation with social media maven and architect William J Martin.

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In this episode of the Business of Architecture show, I discuss starting an architecture firm with Architect William J Martin.

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