2024-05-03T11:11:34-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/64596/upstarts-workac Quilian Riano 2007-09-18T18:30:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hv/hv9b7543fu4wuors.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The one thing you will not find in school--or even on Architecture Registration Exams--is a course on how to <em>get</em> work, yet it is one of the most basic needs of any design practice. In fact, if you don't have an equal ability to experiment in getting work as you do in doing work you would be fortunate to make it past the first five years.<br><br><strong>UpStarts</strong> is a series of features on the foundations of contemporary practice. It will have a global reach in which practices from Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond will be asked to address the work behind getting the work, and the effect of cultural contexts. The focus will be on how a practice is initiated and maintained. In many ways, the critical years of a fledgling design partnership is within the initial five years, after the haze and daze of getting it off the ground. <strong>UpStarts</strong> will survey the first years of practice as a tool for tracking the tactics of the rapidly evolving methods for sustaining a practice.</p>