1st Edition

Architect’s Pocket Book of Modern Management and Practice

By Ben Vickery Copyright 2025
262 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is an easily digestible guide to the management and practice knowledge needed to establish and run an architectural practice. It is of particular interest to those starting out in the profession and to students, whilst also being useful to architects more widely who need succinct information to assist them in the daily management of their work. The book sits beside the Architect’s... Read more

Part 1: Introduction to the construction industry and the architectural profession

1. Introduction

2. The Construction Industry

3. The Architectural Profession

Part 2: Practice management

4. Setting up a practice

5. Marketing and Business Development

6. People management

7. Finances

8. Environmental sustainability

Part 3: Project management

9. Project delivery

10. Planning

11. Building Control and CDM

12. Building contracts

13. Quality Assurance       

14. Computing

Biography

Ben Vickery is an architect with more than 35 years’ experience in architecture as a practice principal and as a designer and manager of projects, including high-profile major buildings in England and around the world. He runs his own practice, Vickery Hyett Sports Architecture, alongside which he teaches management at the University of Hertfordshire school of architecture.