Opinion

Architecture is a business. So why don’t architects act like business people?

By and 2023-05-12T00:50:00

Out of Architecture

Employers should stop expecting their staff to work unpaid overtime out of love for their jobs, and start putting their businesses on a proper commercial footing, write Jake Rudin and Erin Pellegrino

Architecture is a business.

Whether architects openly admit it or not, running an architecture firm works like any other company. Firms—and their founders, leaders, and stakeholders—are beholden to the real-world forces of the economy. You can’t make payroll with love of the work or faux-progressive platitudes.

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