Professional Practice A Guide To Turning Designs Into Build, De Segal, Paul. Editorial W. W. Norton & Company, Tapa Blanda En Inglés, 2006

Descripción

What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and readable guide.

Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction?
How do you market architectural services (get the project)?
What are the basic project delivery methods?
What are the forms of owner/architect and owner/contractor agreements and what services do they cover?
How should you charge for your services?
How do you set up an office?
What insurance, legal, and accounting issues must you consider?
What is project management and who should do it?
What are zoning and building codes about?

Review Professional Practice gives our changing industry exactly what it needs, a clear and concise road map to the design and building process. Paul Segal taps his many years as a successful practicing architect and educator to touch on just about every important challenge facing the profession, and yet leaves us with a healthy dose of new ideas and hope for the future.

Paul Segal, FAIA, is a partner in Paul Segal Associates Architects LLP, recipients of diecisiete AIA awards for design excellence. A graduate of Princeton University School of Architecture, he has taught professional practice to generations of students at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a past president of the AIA/New York Chapter and of the New York Foundation for Architecture (now the Center for Architecture Foundation), and past vice chairman of the Preservation League of New York State.