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Business of Architecture Podcast
by Enoch Sears & Rion Willard · English
Discover strategies, tips and secrets for running a fun, flexible and profitable architecture practice. The focus here is simple: discussion of ways for architects to create a dream architecture practice: design what you want, when you want, and get paid well for it.
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Strategic Branding for Architects: Differentiation, Value, and AI Discovery with Dennis Boyle | 712
Strategic branding for architectural firms—how to differentiate, communicate value, improve discoverability in an AI/prompt-driven search environment, maintain premium pricing, and attract higher-fit…
9 Nov 2026 · 32m · 8 chaptersHow Architects Can Set Better Fees, Handle Pushback, and Protect Profit | 711
How architecture firms can set healthier fees, protect profit, and handle client pushback by improving the pre-proposal conversation.
2 Nov 2026 · 39m · 13 chaptersBuilding Better Homes Through Engineering, Commissioning, and Client-Centered Design | 710
How better coordination between architects and MEP engineers—especially commissioning and building-science work after drawings—prevents performance failures and protects the client experience in…
26 Oct 2026 · 1h · 17 chaptersCreating Value Before Design: Ricardo on Architecture, Development, and Better Client Conversations | 709
Ricardo Alvarez explains how architects can create value before design by joining pre-development conversations, protecting fees, and monetizing expertise through development partnerships—without…
19 Oct 2026 · 59m · 20 chapters
Winning Better Work: Chris Laul on Strategy, Clients & Growth | 708
How architecture firms can win better work more deliberately—by choosing which opportunities not to pursue, building client/market intelligence, and using strategy (including CRM and dashboards) to…
12 Oct 2026 · 54m · 25 chaptersFive Critical Mistakes to Avoid When Building Remote Teams for Your Architecture Firm | 707
How to avoid five “critical mistakes” when outsourcing/hiring remote team members for an architecture firm, plus a bonus on being “remote ready.”
5 Oct 2026 · 42m · 13 chaptersWhat Luxury Clients Expect: An Owner's Rep on Better Project Delivery | 706
What luxury clients really buy when they hire an architecture firm—trust, roadmap, and service—plus how owner’s reps prevent budget/schedule surprises by managing the full “concept to completion”…
28 Sep 2026 · 55m · 24 chapters
The Exhausted Architect: Moving from Overwork to Freedom and Flow | 705
The “exhausted architect” myth that great design requires overwork.
21 Sep 2026 · 1h 8m · 25 chapters
How High-Performing Architecture Firms Improve Profitability and Cash Flow | 704
How high-performing architecture/engineering firms improve profitability and cash flow using firm-management metrics (utilization, realization, revenue per employee), clearer goal-setting,…
14 Sep 2026 · 52m · 18 chapters
How an Architecture Firm Evolves: Pricing, Confidence, and Leadership | 703
How a small architecture firm evolves its pricing, client-offer strategy, leadership, and confidence—moving from “just doing the work” to driving business decisions.
7 Sep 2026 · 57m · 22 chapters
Turning Construction Administration Into Firm Intelligence with Tim Douglas | 702
Roundhouse Labs CEO Tim Douglas explains how construction administration (CA) data from RFIs and submittals can be transformed into firm-level “intelligence” to improve decisions, reduce CA workload,…
31 Aug 2026 · 32m · 10 chapters
Rethinking Fees, Mindset, and Financial Agency in Architecture | 701
The episode argues that architects’ low fees reflect a lack of financial agency and “financial muteness,” which leads to low salaries, burnout, scope creep, late-payment cash-flow crises, and talent…
24 Aug 2026 · 1h 30m · 36 chapters
Eric Lam on Feng Shui, Environmental Psychology, and Designing for Human Energy | 700
Eric Lam, an architect and president of the Architects League of Northern New Jersey, explains how classical Feng Shui (form-and-compass/flying style) overlaps with environmental psychology,…
17 Aug 2026 · 54m · 22 chapters
Building a Purpose-Driven Architecture Practice Through Business Clarity and Community Impact | 699
Orange Made Architect (Eric Darbo-Diaz and Carolina Sivarolo) explains how to build a purpose-driven architecture practice in the Rio Grande Valley by combining business clarity (metrics, pricing,…
10 Aug 2026 · 1h 13m · 31 chapters
From One Cabin to a Global Idea: Craft, Intuition, and Building with Purpose | 698
How a deeply personal, small-scale build (Cabin Anna) evolved from a one-off cabin for Caspar Scholes’ mother into a globally resonant architectural “idea,” and what it teaches about craft vs control…
3 Aug 2026 · 1h 1m · 20 chapters
Building High-Performing, Resilient, Proactive Teams in Architecture Firms | 697
How architecture firm leaders can avoid becoming a bottleneck by building high-performing, resilient, proactive teams—shifting from “most experienced person in the room” decision-making to networked…
27 Jul 2026 · 34m · 15 chaptersWe use cookies.They keep VO running smoothly and help us improve it. Privacy policy