Ralf, I'm an Architect and just opened my own coworking space in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I ran my firm out of my house for 9 years before jumping on the coworking train. For me it was the need to collaborate with other indies regardless of their trade. Yes, Architects are more Brick and Stone by nature but can break away, loosen up and cowork. Most have the notion that if they are to design other peoples buildings, they should work in one as well. Its hard to get that $10 M job by meeting with the client on your dining table. We all dream of the perfect really cool office that we designed and built ourselves. I just did both and have my own really cool building that happens to be open to a bunch of other folks to work at as well. When I explain it to my clients, they have mixed responses. The generations to come will be more open toward coworking being IT educated and not craving the cube-farm job, but only the ones who want to own thier own shop and have the guts to jump off the rails. We are paper heavy but that is getting less each day. When I moved here I left the flat files at home and am in the process of scanning all past projects and documents into pdf to keep it light. I still have more crap that most indies and telies but am working on that. Its the samples and binders that eat up the space. I tell all reps to keep thier binders and send it to me pdf and I only use sweets online, no more library. It kind of works but not in all situations. Gotta go, have brick samples coming in the door and dont know where to put them..................
Trent [email protected] [email protected] On Aug 6, 12:03 pm, Ralf Lippold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > even though we all pretty much know when a place is holding the energy > that fuels creativity and innovation, is there any literature, links > of like-minded architects, experiences (stories of what works and what > doesn't)? > > http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/could be a start as they are doing great > work (not on CoWorking specifically but great). > > Who can help on that? Then we can share and bring new business to > innovative architects. > > Best regards > > Ralf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
