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Lisa Raynes
A conversation with the fantastic Lisa Raynes, Founder of Pride Road Architects
Lisa Raynes, RIBA Chartered Architect and founder of Pride Road, on building a residential architecture practice and the franchise model behind it.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- Pride Road
- Location
- Manchester, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0077 · Architecture Social
A conversation with the fantastic Lisa Raynes, Founder of Pride Road Architects
At the beginning of March, I sat down virtually with Lisa Raynes from Pride Road Architects to learn more about her practice Pride Road Architects. Lisa is a RIBA Chartered Architect and set up Raynes Architecture in 2010. She founded Manchester Curious in 2015 and has now set up Pride Road, the Architectural Practice Franchise. Join our informal podcast interview and learn more about Lisa's practice
Explore episode moments
Use the timestamps below to find each moment in the full episode.
- 04:00 · Raynes Architecture and Manchester Curious · Audio only
- 09:00 · Founding Pride Road Architects · Audio only
- 15:00 · Making architecture services more accessible · Audio only
- 20:00 · Residential clients, process and trust · Audio only
- 25:00 · Franchise model and practice growth · Audio only
- 30:00 · Final advice from Lisa Raynes · Audio only
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Lisa Raynes is a RIBA Chartered Architect and the founder of Pride Road, an architectural practice franchise for the residential sector. She set up Raynes Architecture in 2010, founded the urban architecture outreach festival Manchester Curious in 2015, and then created Pride Road to make running a domestic architecture practice repeatable for other architects.
Pride Road focuses on homeowners and small residential projects, an area Lisa sees as large and underserved. Its franchise model gives architects an established brand, systems and support so they can practise with more flexibility and a better work-life balance, something she is candid about after seeing how careers, and women's careers in particular, can stall after having a family.
Based in the Manchester area, Lisa has served on RIBA Council and chaired Women in Property North West, and Pride Road has featured on the AJ100 disruptor list. On the Architecture Social Podcast she speaks with Stephen Drew about niche, systems, overheads, client communication and growing a practice through the franchise model.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Building an Architecture Practice Franchise ft. Lisa Raynes at Pride Road.
The practice
Pride Road
Looking for Architects across the UK to join our franchise Pride Road
Architecture practice · Greater Manchester
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- Pride Road
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2021
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