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Be an architect from anywhere with an internet connection — 13 featured remote job opportunities

2022-05-26T16:57:00-04:00

Working remotely has become commonplace for many firms as they navigate the ongoing effects of the pandemic. With projects continuing to move forward, offices and studios have adopted safer work practices to keep their teams connected and motivated. The continued evolution and iteration of approaching hybrid work environments has also become a growing reality for firms this year.

Archinect Jobs, the industry's go-to source for job seekers and hiring firms, continues to see an uptick in jobs specifically for remote workers. This week, Archinect features 13 employment opportunities from nine firms currently offering full-time and part-time remote working positions. We've also highlighted remote job opportunities for recent graduates.

Center Street Parking Garage, Berkeley by Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects in collaboration with Neme Design Studio.

Neme Design Studio, Inc seeks a Facade Designer/Project Architect

Details: We are Façade Design Designers and Digital Fabrication Speciali...

Boston Architectural College launches software access portal for remote learning students

2020-08-27T12:44:00-04:00

Boston Architectural College (BAC) has launched a new online access portal called BAC Cloud Canopy for its remote learning community.

The online platform is designed, according to an announcement, to provide "virtual touch points" for "the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the inconvenienced, and unconventional students wherever they live in the world."

Previously on Archinect: Earning an M.Arch Online: Learning from Karen Nelson, Dean of Boston Architectural College. Karen Nelson, Dean of Boston Architectural College. Image courtesy of BAC.

The platform includes access to many digital design tools, including Autodesk Revit, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and others, and is geared toward expanding the availability of production software for students who cannot access the school's computer labs.

A statement on the school's website explains: "At the BAC, we believe distance learning shouldn't mean sacrificing a quality education. As a leader in making design educatio...

Elevate your Zoom meeting game with these virtual backgrounds from architectural photographers

2020-05-19T13:51:00-04:00

Since the sudden transition to working from home and remote learning/teaching earlier this year, online gatherings via Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet have become standard business routine for most of us.

But what about some privacy? Not having to share the interior of your own residence (including that unsightly pile of unfolded laundry in the corner) with everyone? How about some custom — and architectural, of course — backgrounds for your online meeting tool of choice?

Do we have news for you.

In our recent roundup of interviews with architectural photographers, How the Pandemic Is Impacting Architectural Photography, we learned more about their pandemic coping strategies and also generously received images that Archinect's readers are free to use as backdrops.

Marc Goodwin (UK)

"I don't know whether all of my shoots planned this year have just been postponed or are now completely washed away. I suppose my clients are in a similar situation, as are most photographers."

3-S...

Architecture educators weigh in on the new remote learning paradigm

2020-04-15T14:17:00-04:00

This is the first installment of a narrative survey of educators around the globe on the challenges of the massive move to online teaching. Some challenges are practical and logistical; others are more conceptual, political, and even philosophical, involving the importance of campus community, the role of schools in providing for the wellbeing of students, and passionate convictions about the nature of learning and the transmission of knowledge.

Places Journal, which recently took a hiatus from its regular publishing schedule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has gathered perspectives from leading architectural educators offering their takes on what some of the challenges and concerns are for the period moving forward as design education necessarily becomes more online oriented.

The piece includes comments from Dr. Harriet Harriss, Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, Reinhold Martin, Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino professor of architecture at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, among others.

How architecture students and educators are optimizing their work environments at home

2020-04-03T20:59:00-04:00

For most architecture students, faculty, and staff around the world, working from home has become the new normal since campuses closed in response to the sweeping pandemic several weeks ago.

Archinect wanted to find out how things had been going so far for the architectural academic community and reached out to its readers via the ongoing survey How is your school dealing with the coronavirus outbreak? In our previous two analyses, we looked at the initial experience of working online versus onsite at school and the emotional impact this ongoing new situation was having.

Today, we learn from students and educators how they tried to optimize their work environments to facilitate remote learning and teaching.

The Garage Converter: Photo courtesy of a participating California State University, Sacramento educator.

"It's ALL on my laptop," was the upbeat response from one educator at the California State University, Sacramento. "Other than that, I have a comfortable chair, a space I en...

How COVID-19 is affecting architecture students and educators on an emotional level

2020-03-31T08:00:00-04:00

The sudden transition to online learning and teaching has presented students, faculty, and staff at many institutions of higher learning around the world with enormous challenges — technological, organizational but also on a human and inter-human level.

Archinect asked for responses from its global community via the ongoing survey How is your school dealing with the coronavirus outbreak? to learn how students and educators in the architecture field were dealing with the transition. In our first analysis, we looked at the main challenges as well as opportunities of working online versus onsite at school.

Today, we are focusing on the emotional impact this ongoing new situation is having on the architectural academic community.

Mood 1: Good (or trying to stay positive)

While some responses did share a positive, or at least somewhat hopeful, sentiment, these answers were clearly in the minority.

"All good... Bored mostly haha," was the upbeat response from a student at the University o...

How architecture students and educators are handling the transition to online coursework

2020-03-26T14:26:00-04:00

The recent need for schools and universities across the educational spectrum to transition to online learning practically overnight has caught many students, faculty, and staff around the world completely unprepared, while others enjoyed a smooth transition due to routines and protocols established before the crisis.

Archinect reached out to its global community with the ongoing survey How is your school dealing with the coronavirus outbreak? to learn how students and educators in the architecture field are handling the transition. Over the next few days, we will be sharing some of the key takeaways from the responses.

In this first analysis, we are looking at the biggest challenges as well as benefits of working online versus in-person at school. The responses were not conclusively tilting in any specific direction but rather represented an eclectic mixture of frustration, ease, and cautious hope.

Scenario 1: Easy Transition

Students and educators who reported an overall positive ...

If you are architectural faculty, don't miss this ACSA webinar on studio-based online learning

2020-03-25T15:39:00-04:00

After an initial surge of event cancellations and postponements due to the growing pandemic, we are now seeing an increasing shift from physical gatherings to virtual, web-based virtual events.

With the sudden transition to online teaching and remote studios, many teachers in architecture and design academia still face unanswered questions and unresolved challenges. To offer guidance for faculty, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is offering a free webinar this Friday, March 27th. The panel will be moderated by Beth Lundell Garver (Boston Architectural College), panelists include Derek Ham (North Carolina State University), Yoonjee Koh (Boston Architectural College), Drew Krafcik (Stanford University), and Amy Larimer (Stanford University).

Studio-Based Online Learning: Building Community and Engaging Design at a Distance Webinar
Friday, March 27, 2020 | 4:00-5:00 pm ET
FREE (registration required)

Education in architecture and design offers studio-based learning en...

Studio culture goes online at Taubman College

2020-03-10T18:08:00-04:00

As the spread of the novel coronavirus prompts a cascade of event cancellations and school closures, the rest of the Spring 2020 semester hangs in the balance for many design students and educators.

Just this week, Columbia University, Princeton University, Harvard University, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley and others have announced school closures to varying degrees as these institutions formulate plans for moving instruction out of the classroom and onto the internet for (at least) the remainder of the semester. At many universities, mid-reviews are just around the corner or have just taken place, leaving the remaining half-semester in limbo for students and professors, alike.

As educational institutions transition toward a yet-to-be-determined period of all-remote coursework, the deeply social culture of design studio is being challenged from multiple angles, as well.

Anyone who has been through architecture scho...