I Was Happy But Broke: What Nobody Tells You About Running a Studio for 21 Years. | Brooke Aitken

Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! For years, she was running her architecture practice on passion alone. The work was good. The clients were happy. And the money wasn't working. She described it as being "happy but broke" — a phrase so clean and so honest that it stopped being hers the moment she said it, because everyone who builds something creative knows exactly what she means. Brooke Aitken is an architect and the founder of Brooke Aitken Design, a studio she has led for 21 yea...