Design your life

Name: Design your life
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SKU: 9781859469798
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An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

By Clare Nash

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In Design Your Life, Clare Nash shares her journey of establishing a flexible, innovative architectural practice amidst economic challenges. Drawing from her own experience, she offers practical advice on balancing professional ambitions with family life through remote working and smart use of technology. The book covers essential topics such as managing finances, leveraging personal strengths, outsourcing, building effective teams, marketing, and balancing parenthood with career growth. It also features insights from pioneering design studios, making it a comprehensive guide to creating a working life that truly fits your needs.
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This book is ideal for architects and creative professionals seeking to harmonise their work and personal lives. It will also benefit anyone interested in flexible working, entrepreneurial ventures, and designing a career that prioritises well-being and productivity in the modern digital era.

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.

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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, Design Your Life 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

Design Your Life 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781859469798

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 167.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Clare Nash Non-Fiction

About the Author

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).