Attendance
The certificate is awarded on attending at least three of the four days. Sessions are not recorded.
Building a Practice
A capacity-building certificate for early-career architects and interior designers: pricing work, writing a contract, managing a client, keeping a small studio alive.
- Dates
- 5–8 Feb 27
- Duration
- 3.5 days over 2 weekends
- Format
- In person
- Intake
- 24 seats
- With
- DesignWorks
Xen Communications
Finable Consulting
Architecture school teaches you to design a building. It does not teach you what to charge for it, what belongs in a contract, when to turn a client down, or how to pay someone at the end of a month in which nothing came in.
This certificate covers the part of practice that everyone otherwise learns the hard way, and expensively. Four days, taught by three architects who run a studio in Navi Mumbai and have made most of these mistakes already.
You work on your own practice throughout, on the costings, the fee, the scope and the plan, so what you take away is yours rather than a folder of notes about someone else's.
Who this is for
Newly independent
Architects and designers in the first years of their own practice.
About to leap
Still salaried, but planning to leave and start something.
No minimum experience
In most cohorts, several have not taken a first project yet.
What you leave with
A costed plan
Your own practice, on a spreadsheet that holds up to scrutiny.
Templates you can use
A fee structure, a scope of services and a contract.
A certificate
Awarded on attending at least three of the four days.
- Dates
- 5–8 Feb 27
- Duration
- 3.5 days
- Format
- In person
- Intake
- 24 seats
- Fee
- ₹ 25,000
An alternative sitting runs as a Friday evening plus one weekend, for those who cannot give up two.
What happens, day by day
Day 15 Feb 27
10:00–17:00 IST
10:00–17:00 IST
Setting up, and what it costs
Registration, studio structures, the real overheads of a small practice, and what your first year actually looks like on a spreadsheet.
Classroom
Navi Mumbai studio · map
Day 26 Feb 27
10:00–17:00 IST
10:00–17:00 IST
Fees, contracts and scope
How to price work, what a scope of services should say, and the clauses that protect you when a project goes sideways.
Classroom
Navi Mumbai studio · map
Day 37 Feb 27
10:00–17:00 IST
10:00–17:00 IST
Clients, consultants and sites
Running the relationships: briefs, approvals, consultants, contractors, and the conversations nobody rehearses.
Classroom
Navi Mumbai studio · map
Day 48 Feb 27
10:00–13:30 IST
10:00–13:30 IST
People, and what comes next
Hiring, paying and keeping a small team. Closing review of each participant's own practice plan, and certificates.
Classroom
Navi Mumbai studio · map
Conditions for this programme
Who can join
Open to anyone 18 and over holding an architecture or design qualification, or working in practice. No insurance or site visit is involved.
With
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