Architects Urged to Emulate Banks On Partnership
This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
July 5, 2006
Posted to the web July 6, 2006
By Francis Ugwoke
Enugu
Architectural firms have been urged to emulate banks and go into
partnership for increased capital base needed for business expansion.
Noting that many architectural firms were facing hard times, Arch. Okey
Nduka, a guest lecturer at this year's World Architec Day celebration in
Enugu, emphasized that the best is to go into partnership with other firms.
By coming together, architectural firms, according to the Univervisty of
Nigeria, Enugu campus lecturer, will be better equipped financially and
professionally to do viable business.
"It is a common saying that a people united in purpose and vision,
progresses but those divided fall and are destroyed. During training as
a student of architecture, we were taught the discipline of working in
the studio. It was called "studio culture", that is the habit of working
in a studio with your classmates or colleagues. Th idea behind this
"studio culture" was to encourage healthy competition, cultivate
brotherly love and exchange of ideas", he said.
Quoting Walter Vic 11, who said architects were their own worst enemies,
Nduka said architect profession was not progressing because of lack of
cordial relationship between fellow architects.
"Proliferation of architectural firms is a product of such a situation.
Only very few architects lend a helping hand to their colleagues who are
going through business depression.
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