Editor's Picks #568

Archinect kicked off 2025 by asking a bunch of folks (ranging from the AIA’s Chief Economist and the CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects, to architects and academics like Martha Lewis or Judith Sheine) to share their predictions and insights for the year ahead. In Donna Sink’s opinion, "Peggy Deamer's and Bryan Lee's are the best. A couple-few are very dinosaurian". Plus with the help of Enoch Sears, Niall Patrick Walsh reviewed five common ways architects charge fees for design services and offered up five tips for structuring fees. gwharton added "Another important aspect of this is the importance of good operational systems and management to make sure you can deliver profitably…You may have plenty of fee and a clear scope, but if your process is so ineffective that you can't move the project forward, complete phases, and deliver value consistently and on time, then you are still going to lose money." News Drew Haley Smith, a 2023 B.A. graduate of Auburn Universit...

Editor's Picks #568

Archinect kicked off 2025 by asking a bunch of folks (ranging from the AIA’s Chief Economist and the CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects, to architects and academics like Martha Lewis or Judith Sheine) to share their predictions and insights for the year ahead.
In Donna Sink’s opinion, "Peggy Deamer's and Bryan Lee's are the best. A couple-few are very dinosaurian".

Plus with the help of Enoch Sears, Niall Patrick Walsh reviewed five common ways architects charge fees for design services and offered up five tips for structuring fees.

gwharton added "Another important aspect of this is the importance of good operational systems and management to make sure you can deliver profitably…You may have plenty of fee and a clear scope, but if your process is so ineffective that you can't move the project forward, complete phases, and deliver value consistently and on time, then you are still going to lose money." News

Drew Haley Smith, a 2023 B.A. graduate of Auburn Universit...