Profit or profiteering
Time to read: 7 minutes Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you might have heard that it’s expensive to build right now. Then again, that rock of yours is an increasingly valuable...
View ArticleThe Co Architect
Time to read: 8 minutes At the heart of your architecture studio are the relationships you enjoy with your clients. They are the driving force behind every project. They are the people who set your...
View ArticleMy second architecture job
I entered the workforce when I was thirteen years old, delivering newspapers from the back of my dinky old bicycle on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The bike was red, festooned with spokey dokes and...
View ArticleMy first architecture job
I entered the workforce when I was thirteen years old, delivering newspapers from the back of my dinky old bicycle on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The bike was red, festooned with spokey dokes and...
View ArticleIn Detail – Season 01
Over at In Detail, the show that takes you behind the scenes of creative business, the first season has dropped! To kick off my new adventure with Kate Fitzgerald and Mick Moloney, this season begins...
View ArticleIn Detail
I've been a bit quiet on Panfilo for the last month or two because I've been busy working on something new, something very very exciting. Together with my good mates Kate FitzGerald and Mick Moloney,...
View ArticleWorking pro-bono
Earlier this year, before the coronavirus, there was another crisis that drew the attention of the world. During the Australian Black Summer, our worst ever bushfire season on record, 12 million...
View ArticleThe cost of Revit
Last month, a group of predominantly British architecture studios penned an open letter to Autodesk criticising its poor performance over recent years. The group, including Zaha Hadid Architects,...
View ArticleJobkeeper 2.0
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" - William Shakespeare, Henry V Here we are again, accounting software and spreadsheets running hot as we all work out our eligibility for Jobkeeper...
View ArticleDon’t panic
As regular Panfilo readers will know, Mihaly Slocombe is the small architecture business I run with my wife. Erica and I also share the parenting of our two young children, who are in grade two and...
View ArticleUpdate on Covid-19 support
A month and a lifetime have passed since my first article examining the various Covid-19 support packages on offer for architects. It feels like the world is a much calmer place now than the chaos,...
View ArticleDowntime activities
A few weeks ago, ArchiTeam initiated a weekly series of virtual gatherings via Zoom. The aim of these is to provide a safe space in which to discuss the Covid-19 induced challenges we're all facing,...
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Accountable accounting
For the first six years and three months of Mihaly Slocombe's existence, we relied on a lean methodology and Microsoft Excel to manage our business. But my growing constellation of Excel spreadsheets...
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Renovating our business
When we founded Mihaly Slocombe in 2010, Erica and I had never been taught how to manage or grow a business. Naively we thought we could work it out ourselves, piecing together every fragment of the...
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Reflecting on Praxis 2017
The Australian Institute of Architects' annual national conference, Praxis, was held last month in Sydney. Breaking with the twelve year old tradition of appointing creative directors via open...
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Altruism and entrepreneurialism
This article is co-published with ArchiTeam. Inspired by member interest, ArchiTeam decided last year to initiate a public outreach program that will advocate for architects and architecture. I...
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A new advocacy player
In July last year, ArchiTeam launched a working group tasked to find ways it might “educate the public about the value of architects through marketing and public outreach”. This endeavour proposes to...
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YouTube advocacy
Late on Wednesday night, a colleague alerted me to a perturbing YouTube video uploaded by the Association of Professional Builders. Despite its official-sounding name, APB is in fact a marketing...
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The challenges of geography
There are many residential architecture studios in Melbourne whose portfolios are concentrated within specific geographical regions: the south-eastern suburbs, the inner-north, bayside, the Mornington...
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Footsteps of Leplastrier
Day 1 It’s a Sunday lunchtime in late August when we leave Melbourne, giving us plenty of time for a leisurely drive through the Yarra Valley and out to Murrindindi. We’re following in the footsteps...
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