Design your life

An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

Clare Nash (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2021
RIBA Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85946-979-8 (ISBN)

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Ten years ago, Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life. With no job, no savings and no clients in the midst of a recession, Clare set up her own practice with little more than a few postcards in local shop windows and a very simple website. Determined to better combine her life and family with professional work, she created an innovative practice that is flexible and forward-looking, based around remote working and the possibilities offered by improving technology.

Bursting with tips, ideas and how-tos on all aspects of designing a working life that suits you and your business, this book explains in clear and accessible language how to avoid the common pitfalls of long hours and low pay. It explores how to juggle work with family commitments, how to set your own career path and design priorities, and how to instil a flexible working culture within a busy lifestyle.

Encompasses the full range of life-work challenges:

•Money, fees and cashflow
•Playing to your personal strengths
•Outsourcing areas of weakness
•Building a happy and productive remote-working team
•Creating a compelling marketing strategy
•Juggling parenthood and work
•Studying and honing workplace skills.

Provides the inside view from innovative practices:

alma-nac, Gbolade Design Studio, Harrison Stringfellow Architects, Invisible Studio Architects, Office S&M Architects, POoR Collective, Pride Road Architects and Transition by Design.

Clare Nash is an architect and founding director of Clare Nash Architecture, a radical all-female practice specialising in rural energy-efficient design. She is an RIBA Role Model, an architectural business lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and author of Contemporary Vernacular Design: How British housing can rediscover its soul (RIBA Publishing, 2016).

Acknowledgements

About the author

Introduction

Chapter 1 How to be a business owner architect

Chapter 2 How to be an architecture student (and
still have a life)

Chapter 3 Background

Chapter 4 Going solo

Chapter 5 Team

Chapter 6 Niche and marketing

Chapter 7 My mistakes

Chapter 8 Systems and efficiencies

Chapter 9 Business and baby

Chapter 10 Case studies

Case study 1: Office
S&M

Case study 2:
Stringfellow

Case study 3: Piers
Taylor

Case study 4: TbD

Case study 5: Gbolade

Case study 6: alma-nac

Case study 7: Pride Road

Case study 8: Poor

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-85946-979-5 / 1859469795
ISBN-13	978-1-85946-979-8 / 9781859469798
Zustand	Neuware