This is negotiated in the initial partnership contract. In a well-structured partnership, the architect retains design credit and portfolio rights, the design-build firm retains construction credit and portfolio rights, and both parties can publish the finished project as long as design authorship and construction credit are accurately represented.
By Kingdom & Co.|2026-09-08T15:47:56-07:00August 25, 2026|How Design-Build Benefits Architects|Comments Off on Who owns portfolio and press rights on a design-build project with an outside architect?
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