Charlap Hyman & Herrero
Employer:Charlap Hyman & Herrero is currently looking for a Senior Project Architect to join our team and help to build our practice in New York. Candidate must be able to take a large residential or small scale commercial project from start to finish autonomously, and candidate must be highly organized and comfortable taking on projects of various scales and various timelines at the same time. Experience with practice management, mentoring, and client communication is desired. Candidate must be an excellent designer and interested in the arts.
Charlap Hyman & Herrero is a Los Angeles / New York-based architecture and design firm that takes a fully integrated approach to conceptualizing and executing spaces in their totality. Principals Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, whose backgrounds are in interior design and architecture, lead a practice that considers all aspects of the built environment, from site plan to furniture. Working in various typologies – including buildings, set designs, stores and houses – CHH endeavors to consider divergent art forms and the experiences of multiple senses. They aim to create spaces that become worlds unto themselves, with gesamtkunstwerk at the core of the firm’s objective.
CHH’s principals have been featured in Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in its 2018 category for art and style, and the firm ranks among Architectural Digest's "AD100," Elle Decor's “A-List,” PIN-UP Magazine’s “New Power Generation,” and AN Interior's “Top 50.” CHH was selected to participate in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial and won the annual competition hosted by the Miami Design District to design innovative holiday decorations for the neighborhood. In 2020, CHH was the recipient of the AIA Los Angeles Emerging Practice Award, the highest honor the organization bestows on an emerging architecture firm for consistently producing innovative work. CHH has collaborated on lines of fabrics, rugs, wallpapers, and other products with top furnishings companies and continues to expand their range.
Candidate must:
Have at least 8+ years of professional working experience
Have experience managing a small team of designers and a desire to mentor junior staff
Be able to participate in practice management and business development
Be able to run large residential and small commercial projects autonomously from start to finish
Be experienced with navigating NYC DOB and Landmarks permitting processes
Be extremely organized and detail-oriented across in all aspects of the role
Have a positive can-do attitude
Be an excellent critical and strategic thinker and agile problem solver
Be extremely professional and able to interface with clients
Have strong design skills, bring a unique perspective
Licensed Architect is a plus
Software requirements:
Revit - Extensive knowledge, residential and commercial drawing sets
AutoCAD - Extensive knowledge, ability to create clean and organized drawing sets using company standards (MUST)
Rhino3D - Ability to model 3D architecture models and furniture
Bluebeam Revu - Ability to efficiently communicate feedback internally and externally
Adobe InDesign - Ability to create client quality presentations for print and screen
Twinmotion - Ability to generate polished renderings
Other softwares:
Microsoft Office
Miro
Wrike Project Management
Please email a single PDF to employment@ch-herrero.com containing both your CV and Portfolio.
Please label the PDF as follows:
Date (YYYY-MM-DD) + _First_Last
e.g. 2018-03-07_Jane_Smith.pdf
Subject line of email:
Project Architect Candidate Jane Smith
Thank you!
