This is an essential guide for architects who need professional legal advice on negotations, primarily with agreements and fees. This new edition offers updated insights related to negotiation, with references to the AIA Contract Documents, communication, and handling disputes, change, and claims. Read More

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. Read More

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The architect's interest in continuing education has increased as a result of the national trend of state initiatives requiring continuing education for architect registration.

Architect's Essentials of Professional Development assists registered architects and architecture firms in designing their own professional development programme in the context of professional practice. Read More

The Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice Seriesprovides substantive information on the business of architecture and its affiliated professions to maintain and improve the quality of the professional and business environment.

Architects and designers are usually required to prepare and submit proposals in order to secure new business and the success of these proposals has a direct impact on the success or failure of any given firm. Read More

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. Read More

* Covers all aspects of making a presentation, from preparation to delivery
* Provides the tools to succeed in your next project interview
* Presents guidelines for capturing an audience and creating a "stage presence"
Easy access to crucial business information for design professionals
Find the concise, practical business information you need right now in the Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice Series. These authoritative guides quickly make Read More

For architects, negotiation is explicit in every aspect of practice, just as it is implicit in every aspect of design. And now you can develop or refine the negotiation skills you need with the help of this concise, easy-to-follow guide. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this volume in the Professional Practice Series offers accessible, practical coverage of contract negotiation essentials related to growth, expansion, new management Read More

Written by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume in the Professional Practice Essentials Series gives you practical, user-friendly guidance on how to better manager costs through all phases of a project. Dell'Isola first explains the basics of cost management-from estimating costs during the design phase to managing costs during construction and even after occupancy. He then covers all of the Read More

The majority of architecture and design firms employ fewer than ten people. As with any small business, the owner/principal of these firms must make plans for all of the eventual transitions that will impact the practice and any or all of the people therein. This book in the Professional Practice Essentials Series offers comprehensive advice on the subject, specifically tailored to the practicing design professional. Here, a noted consultant who specializes Read More