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Nicholas Stockley
Bricks to Bytes: A Journey in Architecture and Entrepreneurship
Founder of Design Squared Architects, co-founder of RESI and founder of Front Load. Nicholas Stockley on building a business in and around architecture.
- Current role
- Managing Director
- Practice
- Design Squared Architects
- Location
- London, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0193 · Architecture Social
Bricks to Bytes: A Journey in Architecture and Entrepreneurship
Today we sit down with Nicholas Stockley, a man of many architectural hats. Nicholas, the founder and CEO of Frontload, co-founder of RESI, and founder of Design Squared Architects, has truly done it all! From practicing in the field to starting his own architectural firms, he has seen every corner of the architectural world and has plenty of wisdom to share.
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- 05:00 · Apprenticeship routes and early career lessons · Audio only
- 10:00 · Starting businesses and learning from mistakes · Audio only
- 15:00 · Education, creativity and building client relationships · Audio only
- 20:00 · Teamwork, business ownership and early ventures · Audio only
- 25:00 · Building a platform and adapting through Covid · Audio only
- 30:00 · Delivery models, outsourcing and controlling fixed costs · Audio only
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Nicholas Stockley is the founder of Design Squared Architects, a small London practice specialising in high-end residential design that he set up in 2008. He started out through an apprenticeship as an architectural technologist before reading architecture at Leicester, and built Design Squared from freelance residential work into an established studio that employs ARB and RIBA architects.
Alongside the practice, Nicholas co-founded the homeowner platform RESI and now runs Front Load, a venture focused on streamlining design delivery and helping homeowners, buyers and estate agents understand a property's development potential. He is an architectural technician rather than a chartered architect, and talks candidly about building a business in a competitive, and often underpaid, sector.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Building an Architecture Business, with Nicholas Stockley.
The practice
Design Squared Architects
Design Squared Architects is a small, close-knit Architecture practice in London
Architecture practice · City of London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Managing Director
- Practice
- Design Squared Architects
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2023
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