Architecture education was never designed to prepare you for the entrepreneurial side of running a practice. In the minds of the creators that constructed the system which stands for what you now know to be the path to getting licensed, you were never meant to start a business in architecture prematurely. There is a code, a set of rules that drives you to obey and follow a one-sided vision of success.
However, the gap between the education you traditionally obtain at the university has never been as evident and problematic as it is today.
We live in times of information revolution. Technology brought us connectivity and with that new ways of doing business. Therefore left and right we can see emergent business models that have nothing to do with their traditional counterparts. All this potential that can easily be pursued by individuals in the field of technology, business, marketing, personal development, sports, and many other disciplines, had us as architects reevaluate our options.
