Jun 16, 2022
An architect's guide to achieving a work/life balance - Clare Nash - BS080
Today I'm joined by Clare Nash who describes herself as an "Architect creating dream eco-homes, barn conversions plus environmental and community focused housing schemes"
Today we are talking about how to find a work/life balance.
Design Your Life Book - *https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Clare-Nash/Design-your-life--An-architects-guide-to-achieving-a-worklife-balance/26380240*
*Bursting with tips, ideas and how-tos on all aspects of designing a working life that suits you and your business, this book explains in clear and accessible language how to avoid the common pitfalls of long hours and low pay. It explores how to juggle work with family commitments, how to set your own career path and design priorities, and how to instil a flexible working culture within a busy lifestyle.
*About Clare Nash Architecture:
Clare Nash Architecture Ltd is a 5 person architecture practice based in Brackley in rural South Northamptonshire on the Oxfordshire border. Specialising in energy efficient rural design and project management, particularly eco-refurbishment and new build, CNA's design focus takes inspiration from the vernacular.
Focusing on people, site, climate, location, context, sustainable and beautiful materials to produce buildings that sit well in their surroundings and suit the people who reside in them. This means CNA is involved from the initial concept design, through to planning and building control and continuing right through to working with builders to final completion. CNA's level of involvement is tailor made to each project depending upon an individual client's requirement whilst always ensuring close collaboration with each client in every project.
They are a small team and operate a flexible working model which means they do not work from an office but do have regular design meetings. This a superb business model for both financial and time efficiency reasons. Working remotely also gives us a degree of flexibility as our different working locations keep us inspired and feeling fresh to approach projects with renewed focus and lots of ideas.
Podcast Episode Links:
* Clare Nash Architecture - https://clarenasharchitecture.co.uk/
* The E Myth - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Michael-E-Gerber/The-E-Myth-Revisited--Why-Most-Small-Businesses-Dont-Work/2674004
* The Artists Way - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Julia-Cameron/The-Artists-Way--A-Course-in-Discovering-and-Recovering-Your-Creative-Self/19465022
* Ikigai - Twisted Teachers
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