a 6 weeks program

ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE

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start DATE

November 21, 2020

duration

6 weeks

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You need to land a job at a reputable firm.
Thousands of graduating architects are looking for the same thing.

This is your opportunity to stand out.

20+

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10+

companies involved

6 weeks of immersive experience working alongside leading architects & firms while acquiring the hottest in-demand skills. 

It's hands on, project based and fully immersive

The real world is different than classrooms and lectures. Throughout the program you will be working alongside teams of architects to deliver projects for real clients. It’s not a lecture or video. It’s an immersive real world program where you’ll acquire employable skills while adding tremendous experience to your CV!

Explore & decide your path. It's worth 10 internships

When you’re doing an internship, you’re limited to one company, you work with limited experts who have limited expertise and you work on one particular task. Through this program you’ll be engaging with several leading companies alongside the best architects in the country while experimenting with multiple disciplines.

Recruiters are part of the program. Secure job interviews by enrolling!

Recruiters receive hundreds of CVs each month. It’s really hard to convey your character through a piece of paper. All candidates that enroll in this program will have the advantage of bypassing the long email waits and directly puts you in a meeting with the recruiters.
Not only that, but they’ll see you work, collaborate and engage with their teams and architects. It gives you a much higher chance to move forward than everyone else who are waiting to receive an email reply.

WANNA KNOW THE SECRET? IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHARACTER.

Recruiters hire character.  It’s about how you deal with clients, teammates, managers, contractors and how you train your mind to be consistently creative. When you have all technical skills in your pocket. You need the right mindset & character to take off!

Communications for Architects

The Architect’s Character

Architects work with multiple stakeholders, from clients, colleagues, managers and engineers. Speaking on the phone, writing emails, sharing info with your team, presenting, watching your body language, checking your attitude, noticing the vibes you give off,  – everything that another person can verbally, visually, graphically, or perceptually receive from you matter and make a huge impact on your career. Architects who communicate well and articulate relationships advance faster and bigger. This is a core attribute to possess that the majority ignore.

Effective teamworking

The Architect’s Character

Effective negotiation is one of the most important skills you can learn as an architect. You’ll be negotiating everyday. Negotiating ideas, plans, timelines, salaries, who you want in your team…Knowing how to maneuver these situations to your favor is no easy task. But there are tactics, strategies and habits you will develop through sessions of hands on experiences from one of the best negotiators in the country on how to get the best deal in any given situation. This skill will set you on a successful personal growth. Some tricks will be used in your professional setting and others in your everyday life!

Time Management

The Architect’s Character

Clients expect you to come up with a really elegant design solution but they also expect you to do it in time, deal with all their small requests and adjustments, and stay on the same page with your team. Good architects know exactly how to manage all this. These sessions cover essential time management techniques and client relationships hacks which will help you better structure your day, reduce the level of stress, and focus on the creative part of your work  instead of burning deadlines. A lot of architects lose jobs and clients this way. It’s sensitive, but when you tackle it well, you’ll earn the utmost respect of everyone around you and build a professional reputation for yourself.

Secrets of Becoming a Great Architect

The Architect’s Character

Architects do more than design. They dream, and they do. Any architect worth his/her salt needs to have a strong passion for what they do. There are character habits an architect should adopt to orchestrate weird, creative, impactful and successful projects even when your designs are being criticized and thought to be impossible. Knowing how to land big projects, establishing a daring vision and persevering on a certain idea are not easy. But this is what you’ll get to discover with several successful architects who already walked the path.  

Succeeding as a freelance architect

The Architect’s Character

Becoming a freelancer is an attractive career choice for many architects. You get to work for yourself, allowing you to set your own boundaries, goals, and ambitions. Becoming a freelance architect presents challenges similar to those that an entrepreneur faces when starting a business. But when you know how to overcome the challenges, there are a lot of potential rewards for a freelance architect and there are numerous famous and successful examples. We will be meeting with successful freelance architects, learning from their mistakes and adopting their mindset and way of work.

Future Trends in Architecture

The Architect’s Character

When you know where the industry is heading, you’ll know how to strategically position yourself and what skills to invest in.
Cities of the future will be built upwards rather than outwards. Smart cities and smart homes will be the norm. Sustainable design and the growing population is one of the most important challenges faced by future architecture firms. Besides, new emerging skills are being demanded by firms regularly. These sessions will go over positioning yourself to secure a bright career in architecture and design to succeed in a globally competitive market.

starting your own studio

The Architect’s Character

Becoming a freelancer is an attractive career choice for many architects. You get to work for yourself, allowing you to set your own boundaries, goals, and ambitions. Becoming a freelance architect presents challenges similar to those that an entrepreneur faces when starting a business. But when you know how to overcome the challenges, there are a lot of potential rewards for a freelance architect and there are numerous famous and successful examples. We will be meeting with successful freelance architects, learning from their mistakes and adopting their mindset and way of work.

Developing a style/personal brand that gets you noticed

The Architect’s Character

When you know where the industry is heading, you’ll know how to strategically position yourself and what skills to invest in.
Cities of the future will be built upwards rather than outwards. Smart cities and smart homes will be the norm. Sustainable design and the growing population is one of the most important challenges faced by future architecture firms. Besides, new emerging skills are being demanded by firms regularly. These sessions will go over positioning yourself to secure a bright career in architecture and design to succeed in a globally competitive market.

Pricing your design work

The Architect’s Character

Becoming a freelancer is an attractive career choice for many architects. You get to work for yourself, allowing you to set your own boundaries, goals, and ambitions. Becoming a freelance architect presents challenges similar to those that an entrepreneur faces when starting a business. But when you know how to overcome the challenges, there are a lot of potential rewards for a freelance architect and there are numerous famous and successful examples. We will be meeting with successful freelance architects, learning from their mistakes and adopting their mindset and way of work.

Designing your long term plan

The Architect’s Character

When you know where the industry is heading, you’ll know how to strategically position yourself and what skills to invest in.
Cities of the future will be built upwards rather than outwards. Smart cities and smart homes will be the norm. Sustainable design and the growing population is one of the most important challenges faced by future architecture firms. Besides, new emerging skills are being demanded by firms regularly. These sessions will go over positioning yourself to secure a bright career in architecture and design to succeed in a globally competitive market.

Secrets of being promoted fast

The Architect’s Character

Becoming a freelancer is an attractive career choice for many architects. You get to work for yourself, allowing you to set your own boundaries, goals, and ambitions. Becoming a freelance architect presents challenges similar to those that an entrepreneur faces when starting a business. But when you know how to overcome the challenges, there are a lot of potential rewards for a freelance architect and there are numerous famous and successful examples. We will be meeting with successful freelance architects, learning from their mistakes and adopting their mindset and way of work.

How to be professionally weird in your designs

The Architect’s Character

When you know where the industry is heading, you’ll know how to strategically position yourself and what skills to invest in.
Cities of the future will be built upwards rather than outwards. Smart cities and smart homes will be the norm. Sustainable design and the growing population is one of the most important challenges faced by future architecture firms. Besides, new emerging skills are being demanded by firms regularly. These sessions will go over positioning yourself to secure a bright career in architecture and design to succeed in a globally competitive market.

Getting ready to land a job

By this time of the program, you’ll be ahead of hundreds of other graduating architects. It’s time to take you to the next step. Landing your dream job.
Your first job is crucial. Knowing how to land your desired position in your desired firm is a skill! 
That’s why we have partnered with recruiters who will be working with you closely towards the end of the program to design your customized professional career path and secure interviews!

Landing Your Dream Architecture Job

Meeting Recruiters

You’ve followed your favorite designers on Instagram, loved all their projects, and have been itching to shoot off your résumé. But where to start?
An impressive CV is one thing, but if you’re looking to land your dream job, you’ll need to prove that you have more to bring to the table. There are creative secrets to landing that perfect job. We spoke with design professionals and hiring managers and created a step by step guide that will allow you to stand out among the thousands of other candidates.

Meeting The Recruiters

Meeting Recruiters

All candidates who make it to the program will have the opportunity to directly meet with the recruiters of several leading architecture and design firms. No more waiting to get a reply on your emails. Recruiters hire character and it’s near impossible to show your character through a piece of paper that takes them 20 seconds to skim through. Instead of going this route, we’re giving all enrolled candidates the advantage to meet the recruiters who will be watching all your work with the teams and experts throughout the program! This tremendously increases your chances to get a job. It puts you at the front of the line. What remains is to prove your character and that you’re ready for the challenge.

Mapping Architecture firms

Meeting Recruiters

Websites & social media accounts don’t show what goes on behind the scenes, which is the most important part when looking to join a team. Throughout the program we will be visiting and knowing how most leading small and big architecture firms who have offices in the UAE work. How their design process is, their work environment, meeting the creative minds and all what goes through the process from ideation to implementation. It’s always inspiring to see how mega projects started at the very beginning, what designs were thrown away, what mistakes have been made and what major success stories have been written. 

Designing Your Personalized Path

Meeting Recruiters

Each architect is very different. And so are you. Great architects design a path for their professional career and work to achieve one milestone after the other. Instead of being lost and working on different projects here and there, this session is dedicated to design your personal professional path while defining a clear strategy of goals and milestones to work on. With mentors guiding you throughout the way, you’ll know where you’re heading and how big it’ll be!

Meet the experts

Learn from award winning global experts who are advancing the field of architecture and shaping future cities & buildings

Ralf Steinhauer

Director
RSP

Ralf was awarded the 2019 Executive of the Year by Middle East Consultant Magazine and has been ranked in the Top 50 Most Influential Architects of the Middle East for the past 6 years. He has over 13 years of professional experience in Asia, Australia, Middle East and Europe.  His predilection with architecture is one that exerts a comprehensive knowledge base spanning from conceptual design through to project delivery. As an accomplished and inspiring leader, he has led his teams to the successful completion on a series of significant projects of varying sizes with broad experience in lifestyle, hospitality, residential and commercial projects.

Richard Fenne

Regional Executive Chair
Woods Bagot

Richard is an award-winning RIBA and UK registered Architect and Principal with 20 years of wide-ranging international experience. Since joining the Woods Bagot Dubai studio in early 2011 Richard has led some significant and notable projects including the Dubai Exhibition Centre, IRENA HQ building and Etihad Eco Residences at Masdar City. In addition to providing regional leadership he also engages at a global level, developing business strategy, championing sustainability and driving innovative Workplace Architecture.

David Lessard

Design Director
H+A

David Lessard has actively contributed to the realization of several award winning buildings from concept design through to construction completion throughout the Middle East, Europe and United States with an expertise in hospitality, healthcare & lifestyle residential projects.  Understanding the local vernacular and respect for the environment are essential undertones to his design thinking. David has previously held a seat on the AIA Middle East Chapter Board of Directors.

Rachel Darakji

Urban Designer
AECOM

Rachel Darakji is an urban designer at AECOM, the world’s leading consulting firms. She has an academic background of architecture and planning and graduated with honors from Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests are urban ethnography and neighborhood planning.

Enayat Ghaedi

Architect
RMJM

Graduated from American University of Sharjah in 2011, Enayat is well experienced in corporate architecture. He has worked on a wide range of high profile projects across the region including DIFC gate avenue, Innovation hub and Hilton Dubai South.

 

PROGRAM INCLUDES

training (1)

50+ hands-on physical & online sessions by the region's leading experts

montreal-biosphere

3 months immersive & real world project experience with a real client

certificate (2)

Unbeatable certificate that recruiters will love to see

interview (2)

Guaranteed interviews and meetings with recruiters

world (1)

Access to a community of experts, mentors and
professionals

one small step for an architect, one giant leap for the world of architecture.

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CLAIM YOUR SEAT TO THE ENTIRE PROGRAM FOR ONLY

$320

And enjoy:

  • 6 weeks of immersive and real world workshops focused on building the Architects' Character that companies look for.
  • Real world simulations, meeting with clients, managers, engineers
  • 3 Technical workshops by industry experts on focusing on the hottest in-demand skills
  • Access to a network of world class & award winning architects and designers
  • Support, help and guidance before and throughout the entire program.
  • Architecting the Future Certificate with a unique ID that recruiters can verify.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Are you an Architecture student or a fresh graduate looking to acquire the skills that companies are looking for and seeking to meet recruiters to land your dream job? If that’s you. These 3 months will elevate your professional life tremendously.

To ensure a high quality experience, each cohort is limited to only 20 students. 

You bet! Each certificate comes with a unique ID number that you can share with future employers. This ID will be used by the recruiters on our website to show your work done, the experts involved in and companies worked with. Don’t worry, they’ll be impressed.

Not at all, we’ve designed the program to be outside working/learning hours. Most sessions will be in the weekend or after work hours.

We don’t guarantee you getting a job after the program because this highly depends on your character and ability to prove yourself (Which is outside our capacity) But what we do guarantee is you meeting the recruiters of several major companies.They will be watching you in action working with the experts, plus seeing that you have acquired the skills they’re looking for and actually meeting them at the end. This puts you in a very strategic position compared to hundreds of other candidates waiting to get a reply to their emails. 

It’s a hybrid model between online and physical learning experience. We have designed the program to be as much hands-on as possible. So you will be engaging physically with the experts while taking all necessary COVID-19 measures.

Dubai. Since this is not a theoretical lectures based approach, we will be visiting a lot of different locations, sites, companies and offices to get the most out of the program. 

No worries, all sessions will be recorded in order not to miss any content.

Start by clicking on “Reserve my seat” under one of the plans in this page which will take you to the registration page. Once registered you will receive an email with the next steps to reserve your seat and officially be on-board.

Every program has a waiting list and so will this. If all seats are already reserved, you will be added to the waiting list. If one of the registered candidates cancels their registration for some reason or emergency, we will give the first one on the waiting list the opportunity to enroll. That’s why we always encourage to reserve your seat as soon as possible.

When you receive the email after registration, you will be sent a link to either pay a deposit to claim your seat to pay the full amount. All payments are done online through our website. We accept all major debit/credit cards. If you pay an initial deposit is paid, the remaining amount can be paid during the following 2 weeks. 

The discount code can be applied at the checkout page while submitting the payment, it will automatically discount the price.

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